Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- issue can be used as a verb in the sense of "To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place." or "To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers." or "To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun." or "To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring." or "To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway." or "To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock." or "To turn out (in a given way); to have a specified issue or result, to result (in)." or "In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue." or "To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank." or "To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions." or "To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ."
- issue can be used as a noun in the sense of "The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any enclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house." or "The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury." or "That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper." or "Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants." or "Member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, VA. The Issues are now known as the Monacan Indians." or "Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits." or "A discharge of flux, as of blood. Matt. ix. 20." or "An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part." or "The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial." or "A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide." or "In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. At issue, in controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent." or "A financial instrument in a company, such as a bond, stock or other security; the emission of such an instrument." or "A problem or concern."
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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).
