Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- complement can be used as a noun in the sense of "Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation." or "The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment." or "Fullness (of the moon)." or "A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object." or "The totality, the full amount or number which completes something." or "An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle." or "Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition." or "An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave." or "The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light)." or "Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement)." or "One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response." or "An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa." or "A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one." or "A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number." or "The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number." or "The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number." or "The numeric complement of a number." or "A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa." or "
" - complement can be used as a verb in the sense of "To complete." or "To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides." or "To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement."
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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).
