Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- set can be used as a verb in the sense of "
" or "To put (something) down, to rest." or "To determine or settle." or "To adjust." or "To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface." or "To arrange with dishes and cutlery." or "To introduce or describe." or "To locate, to backdrop (a play, etc)." or "To compile, to make (a crossword)." or "To prepare (a stage or film set)." or "To fit (someone) up in a situation." or "To arrange (type)." or "To devise and assign (work) to." or "to sit." or "To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack." or "To solidify." or "Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as it rotates." or "To defeat a contract." - set can be used as a noun in the sense of "A matching collection of similar things." or "A collection of various objects for a particular purpose." or "An object made up several parts" or "A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it." or "Set theory." or "A group of people, usually meeting socially." or "A punch for setting nails in wood." or "The scenery for a film or play." or "The initial or basic formation of dancers." or "A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest." or "A complete series of games, forming part of a match." or "The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack." or "A device for receiving broadcast radio waves; a radio or television." or "Three of a kind in poker. In community card games, the term is usually reserved for a situation in which a pair in a player's hand is matched by a single card on the board. Compare with trips." or "A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces." or "A sett; a hole made and lived in by a badger." or "A drum kit, a drum set." or "A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets."
- set can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Ready, prepared." or "Intent, determined (to do something)." or "Prearranged." or "Fixed in one's opinion." or "Fixed in a certain style."
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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).
