Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- sharp can be used as a adverb in the sense of "Exactly." or "In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable."
- sharp can be used as a verb in the sense of "To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp."
- sharp can be used as a noun in the sense of "The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher." or "A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯." or "A note that is sharp in a particular key." or "The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic." or "Something which is sharp; usually used in the plural." or "A hypodermic needle." or "A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery." or "A dishonest person; a cheater."
- sharp can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Able to cut easily." or "Intelligent." or "Able to pierce easily; pointed." or "Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the name of the note followed by the symbol ♯)." or "Higher in pitch than required." or "Having an intense, acrid flavour." or "Something sudden and intense." or "Illegal or dishonest." or "Exact, precise, accurate; keen." or "Offensive, critical, or acrimonious, as sharp criticism." or "Stylish or attractive." or "Observant; alert; acute."
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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).
