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This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.

  • aggregate can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up" or "consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts." or "Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands." or "Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry." or "Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means." or "United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals."
  • aggregate can be used as a noun in the sense of "A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole." or "A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles." or "A set ." or "The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches." or "Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system." or "Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete. (technical)"
  • aggregate can be used as a verb in the sense of "To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. The aggregated soil." or "To add or unite, as, a person, to an association." or "To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels."

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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).

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