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This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- muster can be used as a verb in the sense of "To show, exhibit." or "To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body." or "To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc." or "To summon together; to get together, to gather." or "To enroll (into service)."
- muster can be used as a noun in the sense of "Gathering." or "# An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things." or "#*1743, Joseph Steele & Richard Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.:" or "#*:She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers." or "# An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service." or "#*1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1:" or "#*:Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily." or "#*1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 4 Jul 1663:" or "#*:And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen [...]." or "# A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc." or "#*2006, John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos!, Boolarong Press:" or "#*:McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert." or "Showing." or "# Something shown for imitation; a pattern." or "# An act of showing something; a display." or "#*1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book III:" or "#*:Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...]." or "#*1647, Beaumont & Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, Act 2:" or "#*:And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners." or "# A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists)."
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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).
