Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- move can be used as a noun in the sense of "The act of moving; a movement." or "An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose." or "A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc." or "The event of changing one's residence." or "The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another when it's one's turn to play."
- move can be used as a verb in the sense of "To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly." or "To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter." or "To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place." or "To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game." or "To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage." or "To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king." or "To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence." or "To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion." or "To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn." or "To incite, urge (someone to do something); to sollicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to." or "To apply to, as for aid."
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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).
