Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- round can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction." or "Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction." or "Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves." or "Plump" or "Complete, whole, not lacking." or "Of a number that has been rounded off or approximated." or "Pronounced with the mouth open in the shape of an "O"."
- round can be used as a preposition in the sense of "Alternative form of around."
- round can be used as a adverb in the sense of "Alternative form of around."
- round can be used as a noun in the sense of "A circular object." or "A circular or repetitious route; hospital rounds." or "An general outburst from a group of people at an event." or "A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time." or "A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group." or "A single individual portion or dose of medicine." or "A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting." or "A bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Cf. round shot and solid shot." or "One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop." or "A stage in a competition." or "In some sports', e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course." or "A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges." or "A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes."
- round can be used as a verb in the sense of "To shape something into a curve." or "To finish; to complete; to fill out." or "To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number." or "To turn past a boundary." or "To turn and attack someone or thing." or "To advance to home plate." or "To whisper."
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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).
