Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- settle can be used as a verb in the sense of "To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like." or "To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister." or "To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose." or "To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee." or "To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like;as, clear weather settles the roads." or "To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it." or "To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance." or "To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel." or "To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account." or "To pay; as, to settle a bill. --Abbott." or "To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620." or "To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state." or "To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain." or "To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder." or "To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law." or "To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring." or "To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing." or "To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir." or "To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc." or "To become calm; to cease from agitation." or "To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors." or "To make a jointure for a wife."
- settle can be used as a noun in the sense of "A seat of any kind." or "A long bench, often with a high back and arms, with storage space underneath for linen." or "A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part."
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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).
