Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- screen can be used as a verb in the sense of "To filter by passing through a screen." or "To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing" or "To present publicly (on the screen)." or "To fit with a screen."
- screen can be used as a noun in the sense of "A physical divider intended to block an area from view." or "A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass." or "The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output." or "The viewing area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation" or "An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate." or "The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects" or "In mining and quarries, a frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires." or "A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself." or "A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection."
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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).
