Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- dump can be used as a verb in the sense of "To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner." or "To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore." or "To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it." or "(informal) To end a relationship with." or "To knock heavily; to stump." or "To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc." or "To precipitate (esp. snow) heavily."
- dump can be used as a noun in the sense of "A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc." or "A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc." or "That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess." or "An act of dumping, or its result." or "A storage place for supplies, especially military." or "An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place." or "An act of defecation." or "A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural)." or "Absence of mind; revery." or "A pile of ore or rock." or "A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune." or "An old kind of dance." or "A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin."
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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).
