Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- page can be used as a verb in the sense of "To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript." or "To turn several pages of a publication." or "To furnish with folios." or "To attend (someone) as a page." or "To call or summon (someone)." or "To contact (someone) by means of a pager." or "To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them."
- page can be used as a noun in the sense of "One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document." or "One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed." or "A figurative record or writing; a collective memory." or "The type set up for printing a leaf." or "A web page." or "A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length." or "A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education." or "A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households." or "A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body." or "The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves." or "A boy child." or "A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground." or "A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack." or "Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania."
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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).
