Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- blank can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Without color; lacking characteristics which give variety." or "Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot." or "Without expression."
- blank can be used as a verb in the sense of "To make void; to erase." or "To ignore." or "To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event."
- blank can be used as a noun in the sense of "A bullet that doesn't harm; a cartridge inserted into a gun that fires no projectile." or "A void space on a paper." or "A space to be filled in on a form or template." or "A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares." or "A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts." or "A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank." or "The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard."
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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).
