Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- double can be used as a adverb in the sense of "Twice over; twofold." or "Two together; two at a time. (esp. in see double)"
- double can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Made up of two matching or complementary elements" or "Twice the quantity" or "Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family" or "Designed for two users." or "Folded in two; composed of two layers." or "Stooping; bent over." or "Having two aspects; ambiguous." or "False, deceitful, or hypocritical." or "Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals." or "Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower." or "Of time, twice as fast."
- double can be used as a noun in the sense of "Twice the number, amount, size, etc." or "A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes" or "A drink with two portions of alcohol" or "A two-base hit" or "A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger." or "A sharp turn, esp. a return on one's own tracks." or "A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract." or "A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket." or "A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race." or "The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard." or "A hit on this ring." or "Short form of double-precision floating-point number."
- double can be used as a verb in the sense of "To multiply by two" or "To fold over so as to make two folds" or "To get a two-base hit" or "(sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist)." or "(often followed by together or up) To join or couple." or "To repeat exactly; copy." or "To play two parts or serve two roles." or "To turn sharply; following a winding course." or "To sail around (a headland or other point)." or "To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it." or "To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument)." or "To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract." or "To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket." or "(foll. by for) To act as substitute." or "To go or march at twice the normal speed." or "To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size."
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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).
