Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- crop can be used as a verb in the sense of "To remove the top end of something, especially a plant." or "To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short." or "To remove the outer parts of a photography or image in order to frame the subject better."
- crop can be used as a noun in the sense of "A plant, especially a cereal, grown for food." or "The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants." or "A group, cluster or collection of things occuring at the same time." or "The lashing end of a whip" or "An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop." or "A rocky outcrop." or "The act of cropping." or "A short haircut." or "A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw." or "The foliate part of a finial." or "The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree."
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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).
