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

  • channel can be used as a noun in the sense of "The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks." or "The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water." or "The navigable part of a river." or "A narrow body of water between two land masses." or "A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit." or "The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor." or "The part that connects a data source to a data sink." or "A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths." or "A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable." or "A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing." or "A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement." or "A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television." or "The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head." or "The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up." or "A channel of distribution" or "A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic." or "An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content."
  • channel can be used as a verb in the sense of "To direct the flow of something." or "To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation."

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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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