Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- lower can be used as a adjective in the sense of "
" - lower can be used as a verb in the sense of "To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail of a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag." or "To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret." or "To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun." or "To make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes." or "To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors." or "To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride." or "(lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity." or "To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc." or "To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose." or "To decrease in value, amount, etc." or "
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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).
