Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- pack can be used as a noun in the sense of "A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods." or "A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden." or "A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective." or "A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack." or "A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together." or "A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;" or "A group of Cub Scouts." or "A shook of cask staves." or "A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously." or "A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely." or "An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment." or "A loose, lewd, or worthless person." or "A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker."
- pack can be used as a verb in the sense of "To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass;" or "To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as," or "To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly." or "To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result" or "To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot." or "To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber" or "To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off" or "To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals)." or "To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings." or "To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam" or "To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation." or "To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well." or "To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack." or "To depart in haste; – generally with off or away." or "To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion." or "To carry (one or more firearms) about one's person." or "To block a shot, esp. in basketball."
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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).
