bight
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a loop in a rope
Types & categories
- loop hypernym
Related & opposite
- bight derivation
Sense 2 verb
fasten with a bight
Types & categories
- fasten hypernym
Related & opposite
- bight derivation
Sense 3 noun
a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
Types & categories
- turn hypernym
Sense 4 noun
a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
the Bight of Benin
Types & categories
- bay hypernym
- Bight of Benin instance hyponym
- Great Australian Bight instance hyponym
Sense 5 noun
the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
Types & categories
- midpoint hypernym
Parts & wholes
- rope part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bight |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | loop |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | bight |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fasten |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | turn |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | bay |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Bight of Benin |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Great Australian Bight |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | rope |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | midpoint |