Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- master can be used as a adjective in the sense of "masterful" or "main, principal or predominant" or "highly skilled" or "original"
- master can be used as a verb in the sense of "to be a master" or "to control" or "to learn to a high degree of proficiency"
- master can be used as a noun in the sense of "Someone who has control over something or someone." or "Owner of an animal or slave." or "The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner." or "Someone who employs others." or "An expert at something." or "A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices." or "A skilled artist." or "A courtesy title of a man or a boy; mister. See Master." or "The original of a document or of a recording." or "The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later." or "A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings."
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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).
