Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- strip can be used as a noun in the sense of "a long, thin piece of a bigger item" or "a series of drawings, a comic strip" or "a landing strip" or "a street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities" or "The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters." or "(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters." or "shortened form of striptease."
- strip can be used as a verb in the sense of "To remove or take away." or "To take off clothing." or "To do a striptease." or "To completely take away, to plunder." or "To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear." or "To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color." or "To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)" or "To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing)."
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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).
