Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- range can be used as a verb in the sense of "(followed by over) or To travel over (an area, etc) with a particular purpose." or "(mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range." or "classify"
- range can be used as a noun in the sense of "Line or series of mountains." or "Large fuel-burning stove." or "Selection, array. Eg: A range of cars." or "An area for practicing shooting at targets." or "# An area for military training or equipment testing." or "The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event." or "# Maximum range of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.)." or "An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land." or "The set of values (points) which a function can obtain." or "The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample." or "The defensive area that a player can cover." or "Compass - The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce." or "The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found."
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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).
