Word Type

Verb

Noun

The word "computers" can be used as verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

airport college cubicle fraternity house large city library mit motel office post office space shuttle spaceship university

Capable Of

add numbers advance knowledge appear dumb belong to people boot from hard drive calculate faster than humans compute connect to other computers control machines cost lot of money cost money count files count very fast crash divided numbers imperfectly do arithmetic do fast calculations do work except data follow instructions help people learn concept of love learn from people mail text make things more complicated monitor for fires multitask need to kept cool networked posses artificial intelligence produce audio produce sound produce video record compact discs remember everything put into return result run machines serve to do many computational tasks share files sort data sort information very fast store documents online or offline stream video take over world day take up alot of space teach think faster than humans use microchips work

Causes Desire

surf net

Defined As

plural form of noun computer

Inflected/Variant Forms

computer

Has Part

keyboards many components many different components monitors no commonsense operating systems own language power supplies trouble understanding flamoyant speakers

Has Property

complicated different from people easy to use expensive fast faster but not smarter than humans fun good at arithmetic good at mathematics good at numbers hard to use man made popular powered by electricity prone to crash very common at colleges

Type Of (IsA)

complex systems requiring human learning electronic devices fairly recent invention getting cheaper and better getting smarter in microwave ovens learning alot of information lot smaller than manmade not people not sentient beings office equipment reducing paper work relatively new innovation subset of electronics toolds way to reduce paper waste

Not Capable Of

eat eat food feel emotion

Part Of

computer class

Receives Action

built by humans connected destroyed by magnents found in library known for solving problems misused by nefarious people misused just like other machine programmed taught to think used as automated navigational aid used as tools used in study of matter

Used For

accomplish tasks collect information create information do data processing do simulation dorks educate entertain gather information generate complex graphics help people help solve problems learn things make humans lives easier organize information predict weather process data spread information talk with people work

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.