Word Type
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).
FAQs
treat (verb) treat (noun) Dutch treat (noun) trick or treat (noun)
Is treat a noun or verb? ›
treat verb (DEAL WITH)
to behave toward someone or deal with something in a particular way: He treated his children badly. She always tried to treat her students as/like adults.
What kind of word is treats? ›
verb (used with object)
to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
What is the noun with treat? ›
The noun form of Treat is Treatment.
What word class is treat? ›
treat. / (triːt) / noun. a celebration, entertainment, gift, or feast given for or to someone and paid for by another. any delightful surprise or specially pleasant occasion.
Is the word this a noun or verb? ›
The words this, that, these, and those are demonstrative pronouns. The demonstrative pronouns are used instead of a noun phrase to indicate distance in time or space in relation to the speaker. They also indicate grammatical number – singular or plural.
Is the word use a noun or verb? ›
Use can be both a verb and a noun, while usage can only function as a noun. Use has a wide range of definitions, whether it's acting as a verb or a noun. Continue reading to learn more about these commonly confused words.
Is its a noun or adjective? ›
But the possessive its is a pronoun, not a noun, and, like other possessive pronouns ( his, hers, yours, and theirs ), is written without that particular bit of punctuation: I have to fix my bike. Its front wheel came off.
Is the word kind a noun? ›
As a noun, kind refers to the variety or specific type of something. The adjective kind also describes showing sympathy or giving comfort.
What is an example of treat? ›
One sense of treat has to do with pleasures and special occasions. You might treat your mother to a pedicure, or give your dog a tasty treat. Treat can also mean "to carry on negotiations," (the meaning that feeds into treaty), or "to take care of." A doctor treats your illness with medication.
Treat is usually used as a verb which means a way or behaviour towards a particular person. However, treat can also be treated as a noun. It is not an abstract noun but a common noun. Instance of its usage in a sentence is: He gave me a treat before I left for England.
Can any word be a noun? ›
Grammatically, a word can function as any part-of-speech in its particular or specific context. For example, if we say the word “boy” is a noun, here the noun is referring to “word.” Therefore, “word” is functioning as a noun in this context of usage. Nonetheless, not all words can technically be used as nouns.
What words are in nouns? ›
A noun is a word that represents a person, thing, concept, or place (e.g., “John,” “house,” “affinity,” “river”). Most sentences contain at least one noun or pronoun. Nouns are often, but not always, preceded by an article (“the,” “a,” or “an”) and/or another determiner such as an adjective.
Is treated a verb or adjective? ›
Verb The author treats this issue in the next chapter. This situation must be treated with great care.
Is treat a root word? ›
Treat comes from the Latin word tractare, meaning “to drag about,” “to handle,” or “to deal with”; the English word tract meaning “a pamphlet of political or religious propaganda” comes directly from this root.
What word goes with treat? ›
Related Words
- feast.
- festivity.
- fete.
- meal.
- reception.
- regale.
- repast.
- spread.
They is a pronoun. Specifically, it's the third-person plural subject pronoun. That means it's used in the subject position to refer to a group of two or more people or things, as in the sentence “They went out ten minutes ago.”
What is as a noun or verb? ›
As is a preposition or a conjunction.
Is it a noun verb or adverb? ›
Nouns are things, adjectives describe things, verbs are what the things do, and adverbs are how they do it.
