Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- truck can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden."
- truck can be used as a noun in the sense of "A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage." or "The ball on top of a flagpole." or "On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck"." or "A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; a lorry." or "Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods." or "A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow." or "A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books." or "A pantechnicon." or "A flatbed railway car." or "A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track. The axle on many types of railway car is not attached to the truck and relies on gravity to remain within the truck's brackets (on the truck's base) that hold the axle in place." or "The part of a skateboard that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between." or "(theatre) A platform with wheels or casters." or "(often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter." or "Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden)." or "Social intercourse; dealings, relationships."
- truck can be used as a verb in the sense of "To drive a truck." or "To convey by truck." or "To travel or live contentedly." or "To persist, to endure." or "(film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject." or "To run over or through a tackler in American football." or "To trade, exchange; barter." or "To engage in commerce; to barter or deal." or "To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with."
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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).
