Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- tie can be used as a verb in the sense of "To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely." or "To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like." or "To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like." or "To secure (something) by string or the like." or "To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering." or "To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering."
- tie can be used as a noun in the sense of "A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie." or "The situation in which one or more participants in a competition are placed equally." or "The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different to a draw)." or "A meeting between two players or teams in a competition." or "A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes." or "One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set." or "A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site." or "A piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened." or "A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together railway lines." or "A strong connection between people or groups of people, a bond."
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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).
