Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- snap can be used as a interjection in the sense of "The winning cry at a game of snap." or "Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously." or "Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time." or "By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar" or "Synonym: "same here", "I like you." "Snap!", "I like you, too.""
- snap can be used as a noun in the sense of "A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound." or "A sudden break." or "An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab." or "The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm." or "A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used." or "A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot)" or "The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension." or "A thin circular cookie or similar good:" or "A brief, sudden period of a certain weather;" or "A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period." or "A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris." or "The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike." or "A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment." or "Food; especially, a packed meal." or "A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards."
- snap can be used as a verb in the sense of "To fracture or break apart suddenly." or "To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack." or "To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite." or "To attempt to seize with eagerness." or "To speak abruptly or sharply." or "To give way abruptly and loudly." or "To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension." or "To flash or appear to flash as with light." or "To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound." or "To snatch with or as if with the teeth." or "To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose." or "To say abruptly or sharply." or "To cause something to emit a snapping sound, such as a fastener." or "To close something using a snap as a fastener." or "To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and aa opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm." or "To cause to move suddenly and smartly." or "To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound)." or "To pass the ball from the center to a back; to hike the ball."
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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).
