Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- drop can be used as a noun in the sense of "A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid." or "The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall." or "A fall, descent; an act of dropping." or "A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point." or "An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute." or "a small amount of an alcoholic beverage; or when used with the definite article (the drop), alcoholic spirits in general." or "A single measure of whisky." or "A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge." or "A dropped pass." or "Short for drop-back or drop back." or "In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference." or "Any item dropped by defeated enemies."
- drop can be used as a verb in the sense of "To fall." or "To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc." or "To lower oneself quickly to the ground." or "To allow to fall, either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on." or "To get rid of; to eject; to remove; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list." or "To write and send (as a letter or message). See also drop (someone) a line." or "To cease concerning oneself over; to stop discussing with someone." or "To express or utter casually or incidentally; to casually mention, usually in conversation, sometimes to give an impression of knowledge, ownership, membership, notoriety, or status. See also name-drop." or "To kill, usually by gunshot, especially in reference to big game hunting; or, sometimes, to knock down; to render unconscious." or "To fail to pronounce." or "To fail to respond to (an argument)." or "To swallow, as in ingesting a hallucinogen, particularly LSD." or "To impart." or "To release to the public." or "To enter public distribution."
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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).
