Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- take can be used as a noun in the sense of "An act of taking." or "Something that is taken." or "A (1) profit, (2) reward, (3) bribe, illegal payoff or unethical kickback." or "An interpretation or view." or "An attempt to record a scene." or "A catch." or "A facial gesture in response to an event." or "A catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper."
- take can be used as a verb in the sense of "To grasp with the hands." or "To grab and move to oneself." or "To get into one's possession." or "To accept." or "To gain a position by force." or "To have sex forcefully with, possibly without consent." or "To carry, particularly to a particular destination." or "To choose." or "To support or carry without failing or breaking." or "To endure or cope with." or "To not swing at a pitch" or "To ingest medicine, drugs, etc." or "To assume or interpret to be." or "To enroll (in a class, or a course of study)." or "To participate in, undergo, or experience." or "To tighten (take up) a belaying rope. Often used imperatively." or "To fight or attempt to fight somebody. (See also take on.)" or "To stick, persist, thrive or remain." or "To become." or "To catch the ball; especially for the wicket-keeper to catch the ball after the batsman has missed or edged it." or "To require." or "To capture using a photographic camera." or "To last or expend [an amount of time]." or "To use" or "To consider as an instance or example."
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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).
