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This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.

  • bond can be used as a noun in the sense of "Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds." or "A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture." or "A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural." or "An emotional link, connection or union." or "A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule." or "A binding agreement, a covenant." or "A sum of money paid as bail or surety." or "Any constraining or cementing force or material." or "In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying." or "In Scotland, a mortgage."
  • bond can be used as a verb in the sense of "To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind." or "To cause to adhere (one material with another)." or "To form a chemical compound with." or "To guarantee or secure a financial risk." or "To form a friendship or emotional connection." or "To put in a bonded warehouse." or "To lay bricks in a specific pattern." or "To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors)."

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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).

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