Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- jump can be used as a verb in the sense of "To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne." or "To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward." or "To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location." or "To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently." or "To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece." or "To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward." or "To attack suddenly and violently." or "To force to jump."
- jump can be used as a adverb in the sense of "exactly; precisely"
- jump can be used as a noun in the sense of "An instance of propelling oneself into the air." or "An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location." or "An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location." or "An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body." or "A jumping move in a board game." or "An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly." or "An early start or an advantage." or "A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity."
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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).
