Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- court can be used as a verb in the sense of "To woo; to attempt to win over with social activities and displays of tact and affection."
- court can be used as a noun in the sense of "An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley." or "The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace." or "The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state." or "Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court." or "Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery." or "The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered." or "The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes." or "A tribunal established for the administration of justice." or "The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both." or "The session of a judicial assembly." or "Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical." or "(sport) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis, basketball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court."
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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).
