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

  • bridge can be used as a noun in the sense of "A construction or natural feature that spans a divide." or "The upper bony ridge of the human nose." or "A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth." or "An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck." or "The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board." or "A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner." or "A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2." or "A song contained within another song, often demarcated by meter, key, or melody." or "A valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads." or "An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins." or "Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit" or "A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports." or "A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider." or "A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord." or "An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected." or "A card game played normally with four players playing as two teams of two players each."
  • bridge can be used as a verb in the sense of "To be or make a bridge over something." or "To span as if with a bridge." or "To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping."

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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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