Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- trap can be used as a verb in the sense of "To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes." or "To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap." or "To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe." or "To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver." or "To leave suddenly, to flee." or "To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it."
- trap can be used as a noun in the sense of "A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body." or "A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense." or "A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor." or "A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball; the game of trapball itself." or "Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object." or "A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids." or "A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet." or "A light two-wheeled carriage with springs." or "A kind of movable stepladder." or "A persons' mouth." or "(plural) belongings" or "A transvestite, a man that one engages in a relationship with, believing him to be a woman." or "An exception generated by the processor." or "A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush." or "A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock."
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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).
