Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- floor can be used as a verb in the sense of "To cover or furnish with a floor." or "To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down." or "To silence by a conclusive answer or retort." or "To amaze or greatly surprise." or "To finish or make an end of."
- floor can be used as a noun in the sense of "The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room." or "The lower inside surface of a hollow space." or "A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories." or "The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge." or "A storey/story of a building." or "In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery." or "Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly." or "That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal." or "The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit." or "A horizontal, flat ore body." or "The largest integer less than or equal to a given number." or "An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface."
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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).
