Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- bolt can be used as a verb in the sense of "To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt." or "To secure a door by locking or barring it." or "To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly." or "To escape." or "Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed." or "To swallow food without chewing it." or "To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink." or "To sift, especially through a cloth."
- bolt can be used as a noun in the sense of "A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw." or "A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism." or "A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open." or "A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm." or "A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult, especially a short, stout arrow." or "A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt." or "A sudden event." or "A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth." or "The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards."
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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).
