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This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.

  • kip can be used as a verb in the sense of "To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity."
  • kip can be used as a noun in the sense of "The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat." or "A bundle or set of such hides." or "A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat." or "The leather made from such hide; kip leather." or "A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed." or "Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze." or "A very untidy house or room." or "A brothel." or "A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound." or "A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds." or "A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds." or "The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK." or "A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body." or "Piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up." or "A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill."

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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).

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