Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- suit can be used as a verb in the sense of "To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word." or "To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit." or "To dress; to clothe." or "To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste." or "To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by with or to."
- suit can be used as a noun in the sense of "A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers, or a similar outfit for a woman." or "A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boilersuit, protective suit" or "A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor." or "A full set of armour." or "The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit." or "The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase." or "Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship." or "The full set of sails required for a ship." or "Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic and French playing cards." or "Regular order; succession." or "The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal." or "A company of attendants or followers; a retinue." or "A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)"
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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).
