Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- hand can be used as a noun in the sense of "That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See manus." or "That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand; as," or "In long measure, two different lengths:" or "A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left." or "Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity." or "Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance." or "An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as," or "An instance of helping." or "Handwriting; style of penmanship; as," or "Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; — usually in the plural." or "That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once; as" or "Applause." or "Agency in transmission from one person to another; as," or "The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch." or "Rate; price." or "Each of the pointers on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day." or "The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim." or "The collective noun for a bunch of bananas."
- hand can be used as a verb in the sense of "To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as" or "To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct" or "To manage; as, I hand my oar. — Matthew Prior" or "To seize; to lay hands on. — Shakespeare" or "To pledge by the hand; to handfast." or "To furl; — said of a sail. — Totten" or "To cooperate. — Massinger"
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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).
