Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- note can be used as a verb in the sense of "To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed" or "To record in writing; to make a memorandum of." or "To denote; to designate" or "To annotate" or "To set down in musical characters."
- note can be used as a noun in the sense of "Use." or "Utility, profit, advantage." or "Affair, matter, concern." or "An event, occasion." or "Business, usually needful in nature; Expedition, undertaking, enterprise." or "Need. —Chaucer." or "Conflict; Fray." or "A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality." or "A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence." or "A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation." or "A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute." or "A short informal letter; a billet." or "A diplomatic missive or written communication." or "A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note." or "A piece of paper money; a banknote." or "A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes." or "A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch." or "A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune." or "A key of the piano or organ." or "Observation; notice; heed." or "Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note."
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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).
