What part of speech is paw?

Paw can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. paw is a verb, present, 1st person singular of paw (infinitive).
  • 2. paw is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. paw is a noun, singular of paws.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does paw mean?

Definitions

Verb

paw - touch clumsily; "The man tried to paw her"
paw - scrape with the paws; "The bear pawed the door"

Noun

paw - a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped
paw - the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt"

Examples of paw

#   Sentence  
1. verb The man tried to paw her.
2. noun "A few seconds later my girlfriend saw the shadow of a bear's paw through the tent fly and then it started ripping through the ceiling."
3. noun She is crate trained, potty trained, and can sit, lay down, stay, come, fetch, and will even stay in a down position while I throw a treat across the floor or even right next to her paw, and she wont get it until I give her the command.
4. noun I don't want to be made a cat's paw.
5. noun The dog gave a yelp when I trod on its paw.
6. noun I saw a dog with one paw bandaged.
7. noun "Look at me," said the Fox. "For the silly reason of wanting to study, I have lost a paw." "Look at me," said the Cat. "For the same foolish reason, I have lost the sight of both eyes."
8. noun Tom's dog left muddy paw prints all over his new carpet.
9. noun My dog's name is Belysh. This summer I taught him to put out his paw. Every morning I wake up early and feed him. Then we go for a walk. He defends me from other dogs. When I go bike riding, he runs beside me. He has a friend, her name is Chernyshka. He likes playing with her. Belysh is a very kind and clever dog.
10. noun One morning, as the fox cub was making to leave the den, she suddenly called out "Ah!" and ran tripping and tumbling back to her mother, a paw pressed over one eye. "Mommy, something's got into my eye! Get it out, get it out!"
11. noun That man has a hand, rather than a paw, hoof, fin or wing has set him above all other animals and has enabled him to develop a culture based on toolmaking and tool using.
12. noun When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in sunny weather — stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
13. noun The hungry cat batted about Tom's face with her paw and awoke him from a deep sleep.
14. noun The pigeon flew away with a message attached to his paw.
15. noun The animals all have a story –a dog found on train tracks with a missing paw, another pup with a birth defect that made her front leg much shorter than her left, a pony whose hind leg had to be amputated.
16. noun To find out if he will be bad weather, our elders observed nature and animals. So, I had the opportunity to check by myself that when the roosters are on a single paw, either it will be cold, or it will rain.
Sentence  
verb
The man tried to paw her.
noun
"A few seconds later my girlfriend saw the shadow of a bear's paw through the tent fly and then it started ripping through the ceiling."
She is crate trained, potty trained, and can sit, lay down, stay, come, fetch, and will even stay in a down position while I throw a treat across the floor or even right next to her paw, and she wont get it until I give her the command.
I don't want to be made a cat's paw.
The dog gave a yelp when I trod on its paw.
I saw a dog with one paw bandaged.
"Look at me," said the Fox. "For the silly reason of wanting to study, I have lost a paw." "Look at me," said the Cat. "For the same foolish reason, I have lost the sight of both eyes."
Tom's dog left muddy paw prints all over his new carpet.
My dog's name is Belysh. This summer I taught him to put out his paw. Every morning I wake up early and feed him. Then we go for a walk. He defends me from other dogs. When I go bike riding, he runs beside me. He has a friend, her name is Chernyshka. He likes playing with her. Belysh is a very kind and clever dog.
One morning, as the fox cub was making to leave the den, she suddenly called out "Ah!" and ran tripping and tumbling back to her mother, a paw pressed over one eye. "Mommy, something's got into my eye! Get it out, get it out!"
That man has a hand, rather than a paw, hoof, fin or wing has set him above all other animals and has enabled him to develop a culture based on toolmaking and tool using.
When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in sunny weather — stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
The hungry cat batted about Tom's face with her paw and awoke him from a deep sleep.
The pigeon flew away with a message attached to his paw.
The animals all have a story –a dog found on train tracks with a missing paw, another pup with a birth defect that made her front leg much shorter than her left, a pony whose hind leg had to be amputated.
To find out if he will be bad weather, our elders observed nature and animals. So, I had the opportunity to check by myself that when the roosters are on a single paw, either it will be cold, or it will rain.

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