Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- base can be used as a noun in the sense of "Something from which other things extend; a foundation." or "# A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object." or "The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; (Basis)." or "A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material." or "The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters." or "Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts." or "Important areas in games and sports" or "The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement." or "One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out." or "A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer." or "The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support." or "The name of the controlling terminal of a transistor." or "The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat." or "A number raised to the power of an exponent." or "The set of sets from which a topology is generated." or "A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles." or "A cheerleader who stays on the ground."
- base can be used as a verb in the sense of "To have as its foundation or starting point." or "To be located (at a particular place)."
- base can be used as a adjective in the sense of "low" or "inferior" or "of low standing or rank" or "immoral, cowardly" or "common" or "nonprecious used to describe metals which are not precious; base metal"
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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).
