Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- reach can be used as a verb in the sense of "To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like." or "Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book." or "To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; too extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear." or "To strike, hit, or tough with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell." or "Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as." or "To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his hand reaches the river." or "To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to." or "To understand; to comprehend." or "To stretch out the hand." or "To strain after something; to make efforts." or "To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something."
- reach can be used as a noun in the sense of "The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown." or "The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity." or "Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope." or "An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch." or "The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow." or "An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land." or "Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel."
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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).
