Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- trunk can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Pertaining to a main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system."
- trunk can be used as a noun in the sense of "The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk." or "A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid." or "The torso." or "The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant." or "The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car." or "A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment." or "a chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks." or "in source controlled software projects: the most current source tree, out of which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled from." or "A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system."
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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).
