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

  • load can be used as a verb in the sense of "To put a load on (something)." or "To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition." or "To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc." or "(computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory." or "(computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory." or "To fill the bases with runners" or "To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome. Often used figuratively, to indicate the gaining of an advantage." or "To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way."
  • load can be used as a noun in the sense of "A burden; a weight to be carried." or "A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind." or "A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time." or "(colloquial) A large number or amount." or "The volume of work required to be performed." or "The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc." or "The electrical current or power delivered by a device." or "Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit." or "A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight." or "A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar." or "A slang term for semen."

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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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