Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- die can be used as a verb in the sense of "To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death." or "# Followed by of. General use." or "#* 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985, p. 87:" or "#*: "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver." or "#* 2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books 2002, p. 85:" or "#*: In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer." or "# Followed by from. General use, though somewhat more common in medical or scientific contexts." or "#* 1865, British Medical Journal, 4 Mar 1865, p. 213:" or "#*: She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject." or "#* 2007, Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor 2007, p. 191:" or "#*: "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."" or "# Followed by for. Often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes." or "#* 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster 1999, p. 232:" or "#*: Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia." or "#* 2003, Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (Eds.), Prison Nation, Routledge 2003, p. 187:" or "#*: Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin." or "# Followed by with. Now rare as indicating direct cause." or "#* 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene 1:" or "#*: Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling." or "#* 1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards 1854, p. 337:" or "#*: And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land." or "To be cut off from family or friends." or "To become spiritually dead; to lose hope." or "To be mortified or shocked by a situation." or "to stop working, to break down."
- die can be used as a noun in the sense of "(plural: dice) A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance." or "(plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth." or "(plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape." or "(plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects." or "(plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals." or "(plural: dice or dies) A fragment of a completed integrated circuit wafer, among those produced by fracturing the wafer as specified in its design, that includes a portion that (unless defective) can provide the electronic function for which it was designed, but whose further mechanical subdivision would irreversibly impair that function."
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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).
