Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- step can be used as a verb in the sense of "To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession." or "To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance." or "To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely." or "To move mentally; to go in imagination." or "To set, as the foot." or "To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect."
- step can be used as a noun in the sense of "An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace." or "A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder." or "A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus." or "The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress." or "A small space or distance." or "A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track." or "A gait; manner of walking." or "Proceeding; measure; action; act." or "() A walk; passage." or "(plural): A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position." or "A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast." or "One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs" or "A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves." or "The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale." or "A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - William Kingdon Clifford"
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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).
