Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- crown can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown." or "Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees."
- crown can be used as a verb in the sense of "To place a crown on the head of." or "To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor." or "To declare (someone) a winner." or "Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening." or "To hit on the head" or "To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game." or "In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king."
- crown can be used as a noun in the sense of "A reward of victory or a mark of honor." or "A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem." or "A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry" or "A wreath or band for the head." or "Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it." or "The topmost part of the head." or "The highest part a hill." or "The top part of a hat." or "The raised centre of a road." or "The highest part of an arch." or "Splendor, finish, culmination." or "Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress)" or "Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings." or "The part of a plant where the root and stem meet." or "The part of a tooth above the gums." or "A prosthetic covering for a tooth." or "A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling" or "The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet" or "A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches." or "A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location"
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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).
