Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- foot can be used as a verb in the sense of "To use the foot to kick (usually a ball)." or "To pay (a bill)." or "To parse into metrical feet."
- foot can be used as a noun in the sense of "A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg." or "Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking." or "Travel by walking." or "The base or bottom of anything." or "The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest." or "The end of a rectangular table opposite the head." or "A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it." or "A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres." or "Foot soldiers; infantry." or "The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting." or "The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward." or "The bottommost part of a typed or printed page." or "The basic measure of rhythm in a poem." or "The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads." or "The bottom edge of a sail." or "The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked." or "The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc by which it moves or holds its position on a surface." or "The globular lower domain of a protein." or "The foot of a line perpendicular to a given line is the point where the lines intersect."
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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).
