Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- line can be used as a verb in the sense of "To cover the inside/inner surface of (something)." or "To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money." or "To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align." or "To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify." or "To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines." or "To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray." or "To impregnate (applied to brute animals). — Creech." or "To read or repeat line by line." or "To form or enter into a line." or "To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground."
- line can be used as a noun in the sense of "A rope, cord, string, or thread; a slender, strong cord, or a cord of any thickness; a hawser." or "A path through two or more points (see also segment), a continuous mark, including as made by a pen, pencil, or graver; any path." or "An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness." or "A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure." or "A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column" or "# by extension, a verse (in poetry)" or "# by extension; such a line as read aloud:" or "# a sentence of dialogue, as in a screenplay." or "The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction." or "A letter, a written form of communication." or "The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection." or "A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. Battle of Hohenfriedberg.]]" or "The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc." or "A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified armed forces." or "The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself." or "The position in which the fencers hold their swords." or "An edge of a graph." or "The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length)." or "The batter's box." or "Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax." or "Direction" or "Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity." or "The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; a boundary; a contour; an outline; a demarcation." or "A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark." or "Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body)." or "A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage." or "A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc." or "A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map." or "The equator." or "A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline." or "That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode." or "The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working." or "One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed." or "A number of shares taken by a jobber." or "A measure of length equal to one twelfth of an inch." or "A hose."
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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).
