Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- pass can be used as a noun in the sense of "An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford." or "A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. (Shakespeare)" or "A movement over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist." or "(rolling metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls." or "The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse." or "Permission or license to pass, or to go and come." or "An intentional walk" or "A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass." or "A thrust; a sally of wit. (Shakespeare)" or "A sexual advance." or "Estimation; character." or "A part, a division." or "A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake. (Antonym: a meet.)" or "The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another." or "A password (especially one for a restricted-access website)."
- pass can be used as a verb in the sense of "To move or be moved from one place to another." or "To change from one state to another." or "To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge." or "(with "on" or "away"): To die." or "To come and go in consciousness." or "To happen." or "Of time, to elapse, to be spent." or "To go from one person to another." or "To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness." or "To go through any inspection or test successfully." or "To be tolerated." or "To continue." or "To proceed without hindrance or opposition." or "To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess." or "To take heed." or "To go through the intestines. (John Arbuthnot)" or "To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance." or "To make a lunge or swipe." or "In any game, to decline to play in one's turn." or "In euchre, to decline to make the trump." or "To go by, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of." or "To go from one limit to the other of; to spend." or "To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer." or "To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard." or "To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed." or "To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc." or "To obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body." or "To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over." or "To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce." or "Hence, to promise; to pledge." or "To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just." or "To put in circulation; to give currency to." or "To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance." or "To emit from the bowels." or "To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure." or "To make, as a thrust, punto, etc." or "To move the ball or puck or a teammate."
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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).
