Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- case can be used as a adjective in the sense of "The last remaining card of a particular rank"
- case can be used as a verb in the sense of "To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment." or "To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery."
- case can be used as a noun in the sense of "A legal proceeding, lawsuit." or "One of several similar instances or events which are being studied and compared." or "An instance of grammatical case; a category of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, specialized (usually by inflection) to indicate a particular syntactic relation to other words in a sentence." or "A set of grammatical cases or their meanings in a particular language collectively." or "A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession." or "An instance of a specific condition or set of symptons." or "A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture." or "A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine." or "A suitcase." or "A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed." or "The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer." or "In typography, the nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter." or "four of a kind" or "A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry equivalent to 192 fluid ounces."
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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).
