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This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.

  • pitch can be used as a noun in the sense of "A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap." or "A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar." or "The act of pitching a baseball." or "The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played." or "An effort to sell or promote something." or "The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw, the turns of a screw thread, or letters in a monospace font." or "The angle at which an object sits." or "More specifically, the rotation angle about the transverse axis." or "A measure of the degree to which an aircraft's nose tilts up or down." or "A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller." or "The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its athwartships axis, causing its bow and stern to go up and down. Compare with roll, yaw and heave." or "The place where a busker performs." or "An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader." or "An intensity." or "A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances." or "A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders." or "The perceived frequency of a sound or note." or "In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by."
  • pitch can be used as a verb in the sense of "To throw." or "To throw (the ball) toward home plate." or "To play baseball in the position of pitcher." or "To throw away; discard." or "To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell." or "To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind." or "To assemble or erect (a tent)." or "To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down." or "To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin." or "To bounce on the playing surface." or "To settle and build up, without melting." or "To produce a note of a given pitch."

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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).

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