Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- circuit can be used as a noun in the sense of "The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun." or "The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area." or "That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown." or "The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits." or "A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher." or "A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice." or "(Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors." or "By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville." or "Circumlocution."
- circuit can be used as a verb in the sense of "To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate." or "To travel around."
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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).
