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This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.

  • stock can be used as a verb in the sense of "To have on hand for sale."
  • stock can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Normally available for purchase." or "Straightforward, plain, very basic"
  • stock can be used as a noun in the sense of "A store of goods ready for sale; inventory." or "A supply of anything ready for use." or "Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola." or "Farm or ranch animals." or "Railroad rolling stock." or "The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder." or "The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder." or "A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes." or "The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder." or "Broth made from meat or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup." or "The type of paper used in printing." or "A wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions." or "In a card game, a stack of undealt cards made available to the players." or "A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)"

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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).

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