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Definition: Part Of Speech |
Part Of SpeechNoun1. One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Part Of SpeechSynonyms: form class (n), word class (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In grammar, a part of speech is defined as the role that a word (or sometimes a phrase) plays in a sentence. In transformational-generative grammar, parts of speech are known as lexical categories.
In English, words are not inherently one part of speech or another. Many verbs and nouns are spelled identically, for instance, denoting the action and the name of the action, respectively:
In Japanese language, aside from some exceptions, the part of speech is defined with called case-maker such as な na, に ni. For example, take a noun, 親切 (Shinsetsu kindness). This word can have either an adjective or adverb form:
English
Not all adverbs end in -ly and not all words ending in -ly are adverbs.
Even words with primarily grammatical functions can be used as verbs or nouns, as:
Common ways of delimiting words by function include:
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Part of speech."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Word | Noun: word, term, vocable; name; phrase; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech; (grammar); ideophone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Part Of Speech |
| English words defined with "part of speech": Catastasis ♦ enallage ♦ isolating ♦ speaking ♦ thereinafter, To speak for Buncombe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "part of speech": Abracadabra ♦ best-few strategy ♦ Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications ♦ focus of attention ♦ Out ♦ PROVINCIALISMS ♦ QX ♦ story. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABRACADABRA. By Abracadabra we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? -- a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that 'tis handed down. From sage to sage, From age to age -- An immortal part of speech! Of an ancient man the tale is told That he lived to be ten centuries old, In a cave on a mountain side. (True, he finally died.) The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feat and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But "Abracadabra, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!" 'Twas all he had, 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and each Made copious notes of the mystical speech, Which they published next -- A trickle of text In the meadow of commentary. Mighty big books were these, In a number, as leaves of trees; In learning, remarkably -- very! He's dead, As I said, And the books of the sages have perished, But his wisdom is sacredly cherished. In Abracadabra it solemnly rings, Like an ancient bell that forever swings. O, I love to hear That word make clear Humanity's General Sense of Things. Jamrach Holobom |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
part of speech | 319 |
eight part of speech | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "part of speech"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قسم من أقسام الكلام. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | slovní druh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | saetningsled, ordklasse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zinsdeel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sanaluokka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | partie du langage parlé, partie du discours, partie de phrase, catégorie grammaticale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wortart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | parte di frase, parte del linguaggio parlato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "詞 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひ"し (dying, on the verge of death, verge of death). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artpay ofay eechspay parte de vorbire. (various references) часть речи. (various references) ordklass (word class). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Part Of Speech" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: part of speach. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-h-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: apotheces, copperahs, ephorates, perfectas, perfectos, praefects, repatches, spaceport. | |
-4 letters: apothece, chapters, cheapest, cheaters, choppers, copperah, copperas, ephorate, feathers, fetchers, forecast, forepast, hectares, operates, patchers, peachers, percepts, perfecta, perfecto, perfects, phorates, poachers, postface, postrace, praefect, preaches, precepts, prefaces, prefects, preheats, prepaste, preshape, pretapes, prophase, prophets, prospect, protease, recheats, sheepcot, teachers, thoraces, trappose, trochees. | |
-5 letters: acerose, acetose, aethers, afreets, apposer, capotes, cappers, captors, carhops, carpets, cerates, chafers, chapter, chaster, cheaper, cheapos, cheater, cheeros, chopper, choreas, coaster, coatees, coaters, coheres, coppers, coppras, coprahs, copters, creates, earshot, ecartes, echoers, eparchs, escaper, escheat, esparto, etchers, factors, fathers, feaster, feather, fetcher, fetches, forceps, frappes, freshet, hafters, heaters, hectare, hectors, hefters, hepcats, heptose, heteros, hoppers, ochreae, ocreate, operate, oraches, parches, patcher, patches, peacher, peaches, pectase, percept, perches, perfect, perhaps, phorate, poacher, poaches, porches, pothers, preacts, precast, precept, preface, prefect, preheat, pretape, prophet, prosect, proteas, rachets, rappees, ratches, reaches, recepts, recheat, rechose, refaces, refects, reheats, repatch, repeats, reshape, respace, respect, retapes, retches, reteach, roaches, rochets, roseate, rotches, scepter, sceptre, schappe, seaport, shoepac, shopper, specter, spectra, spectre, stepper, stopper, strophe, tappers, teacher, teaches, teashop, tephras, terefah, thereof, thorpes, threaps, threeps, tochers, toecaps, toppers, torches, trochee, troches. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 74 4F 66 53 70 65 65 63 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010011 01110000 01100101 01100101 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r t   O f   S p e e c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0074 004F 0066 0053 0070 0065 0065 0063 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678486249722538271716974 |
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