Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- grave can be used as a noun in the sense of "An accent used in French, Italian and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent." or "An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: death; destruction."
- grave can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Of great weight; heavy; ponderous." or "Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc." or "Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face." or "Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key." or "Slow and solemn in movement."
- grave can be used as a verb in the sense of "To dig. Chaucer." or "To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave." or "To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image." or "To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly." or "To entomb; to bury. —Chaucer." or "To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose." or "To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving."
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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).
