Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- flirt can be used as a noun in the sense of "A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer." or "One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl."
- flirt can be used as a adjective in the sense of "pert; wanton"
- flirt can be used as a verb in the sense of "To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief." or "To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan." or "To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock." or "To run about; to dart; to flit; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice." or "To play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men." or "To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe." or "(figurative) to consider or contemplate"
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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).
