confab
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
an informal conversation
Types & categories
- conversation hypernym
- chitchat hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
talk socially without exchanging too much information
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
have a conference in order to talk something over
We conferred about a plan of action
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- chat derivation
- group discussion derivation
- consultation derivation
- consultation derivation
- conference derivation
- conferee derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | chat |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | gossipy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | conversation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | chitchat |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chat |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chitchat |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | yak |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chatterer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | visitor |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | converse |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | jawbone |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | chat |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | group discussion |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | consultation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | consultation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | conference |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | conferee |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | hash out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | collogue |