Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- crib can be used as a verb in the sense of "To place or confine in a crib." or "To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet." or "To engage in academic dishonesty by the illicit use of a pony or cheat sheet; plagiarism." or "To install timber supports, as with cribbing." or "To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving."
- crib can be used as a noun in the sense of "A baby's bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet." or "A bed for a child older than a baby." or "A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel" or "A wicker basket; c.f. Moses basket." or "A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay." or "The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or Nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi." or "A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib." or "A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals." or "A covered structure, for confining animals." or "A stall for large domestic animals." or "A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle" or "A job, a position; (British), an appointment." or "A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation." or "One's residence, or where one normally hangs out." or "A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing." or "A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet." or "A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent." or "Short for the card game cribbage." or "The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer." or "A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections." or "A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction."
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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).
