Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- mark can be used as a verb in the sense of "To indicate in some way for later reference." or "To take note of." or "To blemish, scratch, or stain." or "To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc." or "To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick." or "To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily."
- mark can be used as a noun in the sense of "boundary, land in a boundary" or "# A boundary; a border or frontier." or "# A boundary-post or fence." or "# A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers." or "#* 1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes:" or "#*: I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers." or "# A type of small region or principality." or "#* 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers:" or "#*: There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan." or "# A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples." or "characteristic, sign, visible impression" or "# An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something." or "#* 1813, Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice:" or "#*: depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire." or "# A characteristic feature." or "#: A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman." or "# A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional." or "#* 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:" or "#*: Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip [...]." or "# A sign or brand on a person." or "#: The Antichrist will show the mark of the beast." or "# A written character or sign." or "#: The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly." or "# A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc." or "#: With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy." or "# Resemblance, likeness, image." or "#* ca. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale', Canterbury Tales:" or "#*: Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk / That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk." or "# A particular design or make of an item ." or "#: Presenting...my patented travelator, mark two." or "# A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such point gained as out of a possible total." or "#: What mark did you get in your history test?" or "indicator of position, objective etc." or "# A target for shooting at with a projectile." or "#* 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37:" or "#*: To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards." or "# An indication or sign used for reference or measurement." or "#: I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark." or "# The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game." or "# The female genitals." or "#* 1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost, I.4:" or "#*: A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be." or "# A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick." or "# The line indicating an athlete's starting-point." or "# A score for a sporting achievement." or "# A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures." or "#: Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8." or "attention" or "# Attention, notice." or "#: His last comment is particularly worth of mark." or "# Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier "of mark".)" or "#* 1909, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel:" or "#*: in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field." or "A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz." or "An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence." or "Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs." or "A mark coin."
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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).
