Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- mould can be used as a noun in the sense of "A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.W" or "A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped." or "Something that is made in or shaped on a mould." or "The shape or pattern of a mould." or "General shape or form." or "Distinctive character or type." or "A fixed or restrictive pattern or form" or "See moulding." or "A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air." or "Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting."
- mould can be used as a verb in the sense of "To shape in or on a mould." or "To form into a particular shape; to give shape to." or "To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence; as, a teacher who helps to mould the minds of his students" or "To fit closely by following the contours of." or "To make a mould of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting." or "To ornament with mouldings." or "To be shaped in or as if in a mould."
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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).
