Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- crack can be used as a noun in the sense of "A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material." or "A narrow opening." or "A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack." or "A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe." or "The sharp sound made when solid material breaks." or "Any sharp sound." or "An opportunity to attempt something." or "vagina." or "The space between the buttocks." or "Conviviality; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company." or "Business/events" or "A program, password or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software." or "a meaningful chat." or "good fun. (See usage note re Scots sense)." or "Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose."
- crack can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Highly trained and competent." or "Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch."
- crack can be used as a verb in the sense of "To form cracks." or "To break apart under pressure." or "To become debilitated by psychological pressure." or "To yield under interrogation." or "To make a cracking sound." or "To change rapidly in register." or "To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering." or "To make a sharply humorous comment." or "To make a crack or cracks in." or "To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress." or "To strike forcefully." or "To open slightly." or "To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)" or "To solve a difficult problem." or "To overcome a security system or a component." or "To cause to make a sharp sound." or "To tell (a joke)." or "To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse." or "To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits." or "To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food."
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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).
