Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- cover can be used as a noun in the sense of "A lid." or "The hiding from view." or "The front and back of a book or magazine." or "The top sheet of a bed." or "A cover charge." or "A setting at a restaurant table." or "A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song." or "A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30 forward of square; a fielder in this position." or "A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set." or "An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc." or "A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire." or "In commercial law, a buyer's purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for." or "An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract."
- cover can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine." or "Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions."
- cover can be used as a verb in the sense of "To place something over or upon to conceal or protect." or "To feature, discuss, or mention." or "To provide enough money for." or "To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist)." or "To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing." or "To provide insurance coverage for." or "to copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses)."
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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).