Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- address can be used as a noun in the sense of "Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed." or "Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application." or "A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters." or "Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address." or "Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady. Joseph Addison." or "Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness." or "Act of preparing one's self." or "street location." or "A location in computer memory." or "An Internet address; URL."
- address can be used as a verb in the sense of "To prepare one's self." or "To direct speech." or "To aim; to direct." or "To prepare or make ready." or "To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake." or "To clothe or array; to dress." or "To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience)." or "To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost." or "To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit." or "To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo." or "To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor." or "To address one's self to; to prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to; to direct one's speech or discourse to." or "To handle, discuss about a problem especially to solve it." or "(computing) To refer a location in computer memory."
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
