Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- whip can be used as a noun in the sense of "A lash: an object that is pliant and flexible: commonly a rod; (cane or rattan) or plaited or braided (commonly leather ) rope or thong used to create a sharp "crack" sound for encouraging, directing or herding animals" or "same instrument used to strike a person or animal for punishment in corporal punishment or torture." or "A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes." or "whipped cream." or "A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage." or "(slang/African American Vernacular English) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation."
- whip can be used as a verb in the sense of "To hit with a whip." or "By extension, to hit with any flexible object." or "To defeat." or "To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food." or "To urge into action. (He whipped the department into shape.)" or "To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling" or "To throw an object at a high velocity (Typically used in New England)." or "To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts." or "To snap back and forth like a whip." or "To move very fast."
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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).
