Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- break can be used as a verb in the sense of "To end up in two or more pieces that can't easily be reassembled." or "Of a bone, to crack or fracture through a sudden physical strain, such as a collision." or "Of a bone, to cause to crack under physical strain." or "Of a bone, to fracture accidentally." or "To stop functioning properly or altogether." or "To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily." or "To win a game as receiver." or "To make the first shot." or "To cause to end up in two or more pieces." or "To cause to malfunction or stop working altogether." or "To cause a person or animal to lose his/her/its will, usually obtained by means of torture.A wave breaking (definition 13)" or "To do that which is forbidden by (a rule or rules)." or "To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water." or "To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in a player's favor." or "to disclose or make known an item of news etc" or "to end" or "To ruin financially." or "To divide into smaller units." or "to arrive"
- break can be used as a noun in the sense of "An instance of breaking something into two pieces." or "A physical space that opens up in something or between two things." or "A rest or pause, usually from work; a breaktime." or "A lucky break." or "A game won by the receiving player(s)." or "The first shot in a game of billiards" or "The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table" or "Place where waves break (ie. pitch or spill forward creating white water)." or "A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue." or "a change; the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather"
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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).
