Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- adjunction can be used as a noun in the sense of "A form of similarity between a pair of categories \mathcal{C} and \mathcal{D} which is weaker than equivalence, which in turn is weaker than isomorphism. Given functors F:\mathcal{C} \rightarrow \mathcal{D} and G:\mathcal{D} \rightarrow \mathcal{C} , F is "left adjoint" of G, and G "right adjoint" of F, denoted as F \dashv G , if" or "# there are a pair of natural transformations \eta: \mbox{id}_\mathcal{C} \rightarrow GF and \epsilon: FG \rightarrow \mbox{id}_\mathcal{D} satisfying the following "triangle identities":" or "## F \eta : F \rightarrow FGF composed with \epsilon G: FGF \rightarrow F commutes with \mbox{id}_F: F \rightarrow F and" or "## \eta G: G \rightarrow GFG composed with F \epsilon: GFG \rightarrow G commutes with \mbox{id}_G: G \rightarrow G ." or "# there is a natural isomorphism \alpha: \mathcal{D}(FX,Y) \cong \mathcal{C}(X,GY) , which is natural in the sense of being "natural in X and Y", where" or "## "natural in X" means that for every f:X\rightarrow X', \alpha:\mathcal{D}(FX',Y) \rightarrow \mathcal{C}(X',GY) composed with \mathcal{C}(f,GY):\mathcal{C}(X',GY) \rightarrow \mathcal{C}(X,GY) commutes with \mathcal{D}(Ff,Y):\mathcal{D}(FX',Y) \rightarrow \mathcal{D}(FX,Y) composed with \alpha:\mathcal{D}(FX,Y)\rightarrow \mathcal{C}(X,GY);" or "## "natural in Y" means that for every f:Y \rightarrow Y', \alpha:\mathcal{D}(FX,Y) \rightarrow \mathcal{C}(X,GY) composed with \mathcal{C}(X,Gf):\mathcal{C}(X,GY) \rightarrow \mathcal{C}(X,GY') commutes with \mathcal{D}(FX,f):\mathcal{D}(FX,Y) \rightarrow \mathcal{D}(FX,Y') composed with \alpha:\mathcal{D}(FX,Y') \rightarrow \mathcal{C}(X,GY')."
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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).
