Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- port can be used as a noun in the sense of "A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers." or "A town or city containing such a place." or "The left-hand side of a vessel when one is facing the front." or "An entryway or gate; a portal." or "An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole." or "A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through." or "An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made." or "A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred." or "A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted." or "Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making." or "The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also ." or "The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder." or "A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting." or "(FreeBSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application." or "A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal." or "A schoolbag or suitcase."
- port can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel."
- port can be used as a verb in the sense of "To carry, bear, or transport. See ." or "To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command." or "To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform; to adapt a console video game title to be sold and played on another brand of console."
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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).
