Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- click can be used as a interjection in the sense of "The sound of a click."
- click can be used as a noun in the sense of "A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand." or "An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure." or "Sound made by a dolphin." or "The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks." or "The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse." or "A kilometre." or "The term used to show approval, acceptance, or general agreement." or "
" - click can be used as a verb in the sense of "To cause to make a click, eg to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click." or "(direct and indirect) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse)." or "# To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button." or "# To visit a web site. (Used in Advertising)" or "#: Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com" or "To emit a click." or "To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing." or "To make sense suddenly." or "To get on well at a first meeting."
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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).
