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This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- magic number can be used as a noun in the sense of "the number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill the major quantum shells, and thus produce exceptionally stable nuclei - 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 & 126" or "A metric used to determine a team's required performance to make the playoffs." or "# The sum of one and the wins by one team and losses by an opponent necessary for the team to ensure the opponent cannot catch it in the standings by the end of the regular season. In Major League Baseball, with a regular season of 162 games, the magic number M is calculated as M = 163 - W1 - L2, in which W1 is the leading team's current win total, and L2 is the opponent's current loss total. A magic number of 0 indicates that the trailing team cannot catch the leading team." or "# By extension, the lowest such number that assures a team a playoff berth." or "
" or "#a number which is manually entered in a sourcecode repeatedly, rather than defined somewhere as a named constant. Especially one which is arbitrary or lacks explanation." or "#a number which cannot occur in normal use, used as a placeholder (e.g. a fictitious date such as 2000-02-32) or for other purposes (e.g. where the string slicing function RIGHT or RIGHT$ is not implemented, the same effect can be achieved by using (e.g.) MID(A,3,10538) or MID(A,3,6031769) to achieve the effect of RIGHT(A,3), because no feasible string is anywhere near that long)." or "#a hash code, such as those used by some webmail servers to keep track of sessions."
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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).
