Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- gall can be used as a noun in the sense of "Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver." or "The gall bladder." or "Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances." or "A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall." or "A feeling of exasperation." or "Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah." or "A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister." or "A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore." or "A pit caused on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point." or "A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp ."
- gall can be used as a verb in the sense of "To trouble or bother." or "To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury." or "To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin." or "To exasperate." or "To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point."
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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).
