Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- patch can be used as a proper noun in the sense of "The program that updates old versions of files, based on a record of differences with the newer versions."
- patch can be used as a noun in the sense of "A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole." or "A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc." or "A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty." or "A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore." or "A small area, a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn." or "A period of time." or "A fit." or "A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting." or "A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool." or "A file describing changes made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug. A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program." or "An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin; the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time." or "A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it." or "(Often patch cable, patch cord etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment."
- patch can be used as a verb in the sense of "To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat." or "To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces fastened on." or "To repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house." or "To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches." or "To make of pieces or patches like a quilt." or "To repair as with patches." or "To arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; – generally with up; as, to patch up a truce." or "To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:" or "# To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade." or "# To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program." or "To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable."
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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).
