Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- bar can be used as a verb in the sense of "To obstruct the passage of (someone or something)." or "To prohibit." or "To lock or bolt with a bar."
- bar can be used as a noun in the sense of "A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length." or "A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater (US), a piece of thinner material being called a strip." or "A cuboid piece of any solid commodity." or "A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart." or "A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house." or "The counter of such a premises" or "A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room." or "An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity." or "A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo." or "The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay" or "Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam." or "A collective term for lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others." or "The legal profession of lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others." or "A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value." or "One of those musical sections." or "The crossbar" or "The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit." or "An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act" or "A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water." or "A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501)." or "One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess." or "A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault" or "A unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals."
- bar can be used as a preposition in the sense of "Except, with the exception of."
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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).
