broom
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
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
Types & categories
- cleaning implement hypernym
- besom hyponym
- push broom hyponym
- whisk broom hyponym
Parts & wholes
- broomstick part meronym
Related & opposite
- broom derivation
Sense 2 verb
sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
Sweep the crumbs off the table
Types & categories
- wipe hypernym
Related & opposite
- sweeping derivation
- broom derivation
- carpet sweeper derivation
- sweeper derivation
- sweep verb group
Sense 3 noun
any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
Types & categories
- bush hypernym
- weeping tree broom hyponym
- white broom hyponym
- common broom hyponym
- broom tree hyponym
- Spanish gorse hyponym
- woodwaxen hyponym
- Spanish broom hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Papilionoideae member holonym
Sense 4 verb
finish with a broom
Types & categories
- finish hypernym
Sense 5 noun
common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
Types & categories
- heath hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Calluna member holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | broom |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | broomstick |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | cleaning implement |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | besom |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | push broom |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | whisk broom |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sweeping |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | broom |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | carpet sweeper |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sweeper |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | sweep |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | wipe |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Papilionoideae |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | bush |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | weeping tree broom |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | white broom |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | common broom |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | broom tree |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Spanish gorse |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | woodwaxen |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Spanish broom |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | finish |
| 5 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Calluna |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | heath |