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

  • command can be used as a noun in the sense of "An order, a compelling task given to an inferior or a machine." or "The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience." or "power of control, direction or disposal; mastery." or "A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control." or "The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence." or "A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer." or "Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook." or "A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task." or "The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches."
  • command can be used as a verb in the sense of "To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority." or "To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control." or "To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin." or "to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook." or "To exact, compel or secure by my moral influence; to deserve, claim." or "To hold, to control the use of"

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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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