Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- retire can be used as a noun in the sense of "The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires." or "A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back."
- retire can be used as a verb in the sense of "To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively." or "To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note." or "To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer." or "of a batsman, to voluntarily stop batting so that the next batsman can bat" or "of a fielder, to make a defensive play which results in a runner or the batter being put out" or "To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice." or "To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle." or "To withdraw from a public station, from working, or from business" or "To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs." or "To go to bed; as, he usually retires early."
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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).
