Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- rock can be used as a verb in the sense of "& To move gently back and forth." or "To cause to shake or sway violently." or "To sway or tilt violently back and forth." or "& To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker (with reference to ore etc)" or "to disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to disturb or distress" or "To excel." or "To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy." or "To be very favourable or skilful." or "to thrill or excite, especially with rock music" or "to do something with excitement yet skillfully" or "to wear or carry something with pride and skill."
- rock can be used as a noun in the sense of "The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust." or "A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water." or "A boulder or large stone." or "A large hill or island having no vegetation." or "Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another." or "Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals." or "A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond." or "A lump or cube of ice." or "A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length." or "A crystalized lump of crack cocaine." or "An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes." or "An Afrikaner." or "In poker, an extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands." or "An act of rocking." or "A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals." or "distaff" or "The flax or wool on a distaff."
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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).
