Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- normal can be used as a noun in the sense of "A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, a surface, or a plane." or "A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles."
- normal can be used as a adjective in the sense of "According to norms or rules." or "Usual; ordinary" or "Healthy; not sick or ill" or "Pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach." or "Heterosexual." or "of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution." or "(Of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See normal mode" or "Perpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space." or "(Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group" or "(Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K" or "(Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape" or "(Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact" or "(Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology" or "(Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose" or "(Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint" or "(Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism" or "(Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism" or "(Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism" or "(Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal" or "(Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution" or "(Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods" or "in the default position, set for the most frequently used route."
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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).
