Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- push can be used as a noun in the sense of "A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing." or "An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents." or "A great effort (to do something)." or "A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music." or "A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score" or "The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request, as in server push, push technology."
- push can be used as a verb in the sense of "To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force." or "To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action." or "To continually attempt to promote (a point of view)." or "To promote a product with the intention of selling it." or "To approach; to come close to." or "To apply a force to an object such that it moves away from the person applying the force." or "To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents." or "To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action." or "To make a higher bid at an auction"
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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).
