Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- buck can be used as a verb in the sense of "(of a horse, or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack." or "(of a horse, or similar saddle or pack animal) to successfully throw or attempt to throw (a rider or pack) by bucking." or "(by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly." or "(by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner." or "(by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against." or "To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation."
- buck can be used as a noun in the sense of "A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad." or "An uncastrated sheep, a ram." or "A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man." or "A fop or dandy." or "A black or Native American man." or "A dollar (one hundred cents)." or "One hundred." or "An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes." or "Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing." or "(always plural, bucks) Casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often white or a neutral color." or "The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery." or "One million dollars."
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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).
