Word that are both noun and verb

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There are many words in the English language that are both nouns and verbs. Find out from our list what they are. List of words that are objects and action words.

access	dump	mail	shelter
ache	dust	make	shock
act	dye	man	shop
address	echo	march	show
aim	email	mark	sign
alert	end	match	signal
answer	escape	mate	silence
arrest	escort	matter	sin
attack	esteem	mean	sip
attribute	estimate	measure	skate
auction	exchange	milk	sketch
back	excuse	mind	ski
bail	exhibit	mine	slice
balance	experience	miss	slide
balloon	eye	mistake	slip
ban	face	moor	smell
bandage	fall	move	smile
bank	favor	mug	smirk
bare	fax	nail	smoke
bargain	fear	name	snack
battle	feel	need	snow
beam	fight	nest	sound
bear	file	notch	span
beat	fill	note	spot
bend	film	notice	spray
benefit	finish	number	sprout
blame	fish	object	squash
blast	fix	offer	stain
bleach	flap	oil	stamp
block	flash	order	stand
bloom	float	pack	star
blow	flood	pad	start
board	floss	paddle	state
bomb	flow	paint	steer
bother	flower	park	step
bounce	fly	part	sting
bow	fold	pass	stop
box	fool	paste	store
bread	force	pat	storm
break	form	pause	stress
breed	frame	pay	strip
broadcast	freeze	pedal	stroke
brush	frown	peel	struggle
bump	function	pelt	study
burn	garden	permit	stuff
buy	gaze	phone	stunt
cake	gel	photograph	subject
call	glue	pick	suit
camp	grate	pine	supply
care	grease	place	support
catch	grill	plan	surf
cause	grimace	plane	surprise
challenge	grin	plant	suspect
change	grip	play	swap
chant	guarantee	plow	swing
charge	guard	plug	swivel
cheat	guess	point	tack
check	guide	poke	talk
cheer	hammer	pop	taste
chip	hand	post	tear
claim	handle	practice	tease
clip	harm	praise	telephone
cloud	harness	present	test
clue	hate	proceed	thought
coach	head	process	thunder
color	heap	produce	tick
comb	heat	progress	tie
combat	help	project	time
comfort	hide	promise	tip
conduct	highlight	protest	tire
conflict	hike	pull	toast
contest	hit	pump	touch
contract	hold	punch	tour
contrast	hop	push	tow
control	hope	question	trace
cook	hose	quilt	track
coop	hug	quiz	trade
copy	humor	race	train
cost	hunt	rain	transport
count	hurry	raise	trap
cover	ice	rant	travel
crack	impact	rate	treat
crash	inch	reach	trick
crate	increase	reason	trim
credit	influence	rebel	trust
crush	insult	record	tug
cure	interest	refill	turn
curl	iron	refund	twist
curve	itch	reign	type
cut	jail	reject	upstage
cycle	jam	rent	use
dam	joke	repair	vacuum
damage	judge	repeat	value
dance	jump	reply	visit
deal	keep	report	voice
decay	kick	request	vote
decrease	kiss	rhyme	wake
delay	knit	ring	walk
delight	knock	riot	waltz
demand	knot	risk	watch
design	label	rock	water
dial	land	roll	wave
die	last	row	wear
dislike	laugh	ruin	whip
display	lead	rule	whisper
dive	leap	run	whistle
divorce	level	sail	wick
dock	license	sand	wink
double	lie	saw	wire
doubt	lift	scare	wish
drain	light	scratch	work
draw	limit	screw	worry
dream	link	search	wrap
dress	load	season	wreck
drill	loan	sense	X-ray
drink	lock	shampoo	yawn
drive	look	shape	yield
duck	love	share	zone

English grammar is the core of speaking and writing English. If you are a writer, you must be aware of words that are both nouns and verbs or words that can be nouns and verbs. If not, no worries, because today you will get to know about words that can be noun and verb along with words that are nouns verbs and adjectives. Without any further delay, let us begin. 

1. What is the definition of Parts of Speech?

Different categories of words are used in different types of speeches. The parts of English speech are,

• Adjective,
• Adverb,
• Conjunction,
• Interjection,
• Noun,
• Preposition,
• Pronoun, and
• Verb.

These parts indicate the functioning of the words in consideration of their meaning and grammar within a sentence. Let’s start with nouns, verbs, and adjectives. (See The Interesting History of Alphabet)

2. What are Nouns?

The name of a person, place, or thing is known as a noun. So, you can consider nouns when you are naming words. For example, Raj, London, and table are all nouns. In a broader sense, words that help you identify any group of people, place, or thing are all common nouns. While a noun which is the name of a particular thing, place, or person is known as a proper noun. (See What is an Example of Expository Text?)

3. What are Verbs used for?

A word that is used to describe an action, occurrence, or state is known as a verb. So, verbs are considered action words. For example, hear, cook, listen, happen, develop, exist, play, etc. (See What Does 42 Mean?)

4. What are the Words that are both Nouns and Verbs?

However, there are certain nouns that are used or act as verbs. These types of nouns which function as verbs are known as Verbal Nouns or Gerundial Nouns. These nouns are structurally related to the non-finite verb forms but are not non-finite verbs in general. (See Dead as a Doornail or Doorknob Meaning)

Verbal nouns are derived from verbs and so they grammatically behave like nouns. These are the rules they follow.

• Verbal nouns are preceded by definite articles.
• They are modified by adjectives and not by adverbs.
• They do not take direct objects as verbs. (See Use of Fingers Crossed in a Sentence)

6. What are the Words that can be Noun and Verb starting with Alphabets A and B?

The noun and verb words that begin with A are,

• Access, ache, act, address,
• Aim, alert, answer, arrest,
• Attack, and auction. (See What Does K Mean In Text?)

The words that begin with B are,

• Back, bail, bait, balance, balloon,
• Ban, bandage, bank, bare, bargain,
• Battle, beam, bear, beat, bend, benefit,
• Blame, blast, bleach, block, bloom,
• Blow, board, bomb, bother,
• Bounce, bow, bowl, box, bread,
• Break, breed, broadcast,
• Brush, bump, burn, and buy. Also, check out what is the Past Tense of Beat?

7. What are the Words that are both Nouns and Verbs which commence with Alphabets C and D?

The noun and verb words that begin with C are,

• Cake, camp, catch, challenge,
• Chant, cheat, cheer, claim,
• Cloud, coach, comb, contrast,
• Cook, copy, count, crack, crate,
• Crush, curl, cut, cycle, curve, cure,
• Credit, crash, cover, cost, coop,
• Control, comfort, color, clue,
• Clip, chip, check, charge,
• Change, cause, care, and call. (See What does BC stand for in Text?)

The noun and verb words that begin with D are,

• Dam, damage, dance, deal, decay,
• Decrease, delay, delight, demand,
• Design, dial, die, dislike, display,
• Dive, divorce, dock, double, doubt,
• Drain, draw, dream, dress, drill,
• Drink, drive, duck, dump, dust, and dye. Must read examples of kiss me under the Mistletoe Quotes

8. What are the E, F, G, and H Words that are both Nouns and Verbs?

The noun and verb words that begin with E are,

• Echo, email, end, escape,
• Esteem, estimate, exchange,
• Excuse, exhibit, experience, exit, and eye.

The noun and verb words that begin with F are,

• Face, fall, favor, fax, fear, feel,
• Fight, file, fill, film, finish, fish, fix,
• Flap, flash, float, flood, floss, flow,
• Flower, fly, fold, fool, force, form,
• Frame, freeze, frown, and function. (See Mc Vs. Mac Debate)

The noun and verb words that begin with G are,

• Garden, gaze, gel, glue, grate, grill,
• Grease, grimace, grin, grip,
• Guarantee, guard, guess, and guide.

The noun and verb words that begin with H are,

• Hammer, hand, handle, harm, harness,
• Hate, head, heap, heat, help, hide,
• Highlight, hike, hit, hold, hop, hope,
• Hose, hug, humor, hunt, and hurry. (See Ahoy Hoy Meaning and Usage)

9. What are the I, J, K, and L Words that are both Nouns and Verbs?

• The noun and verb words that begin with I are ice, impact, inch, increase, influence, insult, interest, iron, and itch.
• The noun and verb words that begin with J are jail, jam, joke, judge, and jump.
• The words that begin with K are, keep, kick, kiss, knit, knock, and knot.
• The noun and verb words that begin with L are, label, land, last, laugh, lead, leap, level, license, lie, lift, light, limit, link, load, loan, lock, look, and love. (See What does k stand for in Money?)

10. What are the Words that are both Nouns and Verbs which commence with Alphabets M, N, and O?

The noun and verb words that begin with M are,

• Mail, make, man, march, mark,
• Match, mate, matter, mean,
• Measure, milk, mind, mine,
• Miss, mistake, moor, move, and mug.

The noun and verb words that begin with N are, nail, name, need, nest, notch, note, notice, and umber. The words that begin with O are, object, offer, oil, and order. Also, check out what are Filler Words in Writing?

11. What are the P, Q, and R Words that are both Nouns and Verbs?

The noun and verb words that begin with P are,

• Pack, pad, paddle, paint, park,
• Part, pass, paste, pat, pause, pay,
• Pedal, peel, pelt, permit, phone,
• Photograph, pick, pine, place, plan,
• Plane, plant, play, plow, plug, point,
• Poke, pop, post, practice, praise,
• Present, process, produce, promise,
• Protest, pull, pump, punch, and push.

The noun and verb words that begin with Q are question, quilt, and quilt.

The noun and verb words that begin with R are,

• Race, rain, raise, rant, rate, reach,
• Reason, record, reign, rent, repair,
• Reply, report, request, rhyme,
• Ring, riot, risk, rock, roll, row,
• Ruin, rule, and run. (See What does RD Mean in Text?)

12. What are the S and T words that are both Nouns and Verbs?

The noun and verb words that begin with S are,

• Sail, sand, saw, scare, scratch, screw,
• Search, season, sense, shampoo, shape,
• Share, ship, shelter, shock, shop,
• Show, sign, signal, silence, sin, sip,
• Skate, sketch, ski, slice, slide, slip,
• Smell, smile, smirk, smoke, snack,
• Snow, sound, span, spot, spray, sprout,
• Squash, stain, stamp, stand, star, start,
• State, steer, step, sting, stop, store,
• Storm, stress, strip, stroke, struggle,
• Study, stuff, stunt, suit, supply, support,
• Surf, surprise, swap, swing, and swivel. (See Examples of Famous Acrostic Poems)

The noun and verb words that begin with T are,

• Tack, talk, taste, tear, tease, telephone,
• Test, thought, thunder, tick, tie, time,
• Tip, tire, toast, touch, tour, tow, trace,
• Track, trade, train, transport, trap,
• Travel, treat, trick, trim, trust,
• Tug, turn, twist, and type. (See Phase vs Faze)

13. What are the U, V, W, Y, and Z Words that are both Nouns and Verbs?

• The noun and verb words that begin with U are, upstage and use.
• The noun and verb words that begin with V are, vacuum, value, visit, voice, and vote.
• The noun and verb words that begin with W are, wake, walk, waltz, watch, water, wave, wear, whip, whisper, whistle, wick, wink, wire, wish, work, worry, wrap, and wreck.
• The noun and verb words that begin with Y are,yawn, yield, and zone. (See Goodbye Etymology)

14. What are Adjectives?

Words that signify various attributes of a noun or pronoun are known as adjectives. For example, red, black, sweet, faster, etc. Also, check out the words to describe the Sea.

15. What are the Words that are Nouns Verbs and Adjectives?

There are certain words that hold the same meaning but they have different forms in nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The list containing these words is mentioned ahead, arranged alphabetically, in order of adjective-noun-verb. 

Along with words that are both nouns and verbs, take a look at the list which is in order of adjectives-nouns-verbs.

• Active-action or activity or activeness-act,
• Achievable-achievement-achieve,
• Acceptable-acceptance-accept,
• Additional-addition-add,
• Adjustable-adjustment-adjust,
• Admirable-admiration-admire,
• Advisable-advice-advise,
• Amazing-amazement-amaze,
• Massive-mass-amass, 
• Amazing-amusement-amuse,
• Annoying-annoyance-annoy,
• Approachable-approach-approach,
• Attentive-attention-attend,
• Attractive-attraction-attract,
• Avoidable-avoidance-avoid. (See What does WTM mean in Snapchat?)

So, today you got to know about words that are both nouns and verbs, words that can be noun and verb, and words that are nouns verbs and adjectives. It is time to share this information with your students, friends, and family. (See What are these symbols called in English, ~, `, #, ^, *, -, {}, [], ‘, “, /, ?)

Can a verb also be a noun? The short answer is: yes.

As we know a noun is a word that names things, such as persons, places and things, as well as feelings, ideas and acts. We also know that verbs are action words. We use verbs to describe what nouns do.  So how can a verb also be a noun.

Let’s take a look at an example:

The word: play.

I like to play in the park with my friends.
Play is a verb in this sentence.

We’re going to see a play tonight at the theater.
Play is a noun in this sentence.

There are lots of words that can be both a noun and a verb. Here are some:

• Bait
• Love
• Peel
• Bowl
• Exit
• Fly
• Park
• Ship

We’ve created some worksheets in our grade 3 grammar section for students to practice writing sentences with words that are both nouns and verbs.

For further practice, we also have worksheets on identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives in sentences.

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Hi English learners! Welcome to a new lesson. We’ll be talking about words that are both verbs and nouns.

Act

as a verb: to behave.

Simon, don’t be foolish! You’re acting like a child,

as a noun: something you do.

Giving money to charity is an act of kindness.

Address

as a verb: to speak to somebody.

You should address him as Mr Smith or sir.

as a noun: the name and the number of the place where something is located.

Write in your address on the gap, please.

Arrest

as a verb: when the police take someone to the police station.

Michael was arrested last night for drinking and driving.

as a noun: an act of taking somebody to the police station.

Several arrests were made connected with the murder.

Words that are Both Verbs and Nouns

Call

as a verb: to telephone someone.

You can call me on my landline after 6.

as a noun: an act of calling someone on the phone

I need to make a phone call.

Dance

as a verb: to move your body to music.

We were dancing in the club all night.

as a noun: an act of dancing.

I’m learning some Latin American dances such as salsa and flamenco.

Drink

as a verb: to pour something liquid into your mouth and swallow.

What would you like to drink?

as a noun: a liquid that you drink.

I’d like a drink first and then we can talk.

Words that are Both Verbs and Nouns

Drive

as a  verb: to move a vehicle such as a car.

My dad is teaching me to drive.

as a noun: a journey by car.

Let’s go for a drive after lunch.

Experience

as a verb: something that happens to you.

We experienced turbulence during the flight.

as a noun: your knowledge and skills.

Sandra has experience in working with disabled people.

Face

as a verb: to have your face opposite of someone or something.

When she woke up, she faced her dog’s head.

as a noun: the front part of the head.

Her face went red when she saw him.

Words that are Both Verbs and Nouns

Fear

as a verb: to feel scared.

There is nothing to fear from.

as a noun: the feeling you have when you are in a dangerous situation.

The cat hissed with fear when it saw the dog.

Hope

as a verb: to wish something to happen.

I hope it’s not going to rain in the afternoon.

as a noun: a wish for a certain good thing to happen in the future.

They had a lot of hope for the future.

Increase

as a verb: to become larger or greater in amount.

After the Coronavirus pandemic, all the prices increased.

as a noun: a rise in size, amount, etc.

We are expecting an increase in salary in the next month.

Words that are Both Verbs and Nouns

Kiss

as a verb: to touch someone or something with your lips.

Martin kissed her on the cheek.

as a noun: the act of kissing.

She gave me a hug and a kiss.

Run

as a verb: to walk faster.

They saw the bus leaving so they began to run.

as a noun: the act of running.

Charlie usually goes for a run before work.

Search

as a verb: to try to find something by watching carefully.

The police officer searched through the files.

as a noun: the act of searching.

They conducted a thorough search for the missing man.

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