Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- blast can be used as a noun in the sense of "A violent gust of wind." or "A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast." or "An explosion." or "A loud, sudden sound." or "A good time; an enjoyable moment." or "An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast)."
- blast can be used as a interjection in the sense of "Blast it; damn it."
- blast can be used as a verb in the sense of "To make a loud noise." or "To shatter, as if by an explosion." or "To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion)." or "To curse; to damn." or "To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles)." or "To return extra salvage to another location." or "To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish."
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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).
