dabble
verb
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 verb
dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
Types & categories
- dunk hypernym
Sense 2 verb
play in or as if in water, as of small children
Types & categories
- play hypernym
Sense 3 verb
work with in an amateurish manner
She dabbles in astronomy
Types & categories
- occupy hypernym
Related & opposite
- dabbler derivation
Sense 4 verb
bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
dabbling ducks
Types & categories
- bob hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | dunk |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | play |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dabbler |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | occupy |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | bob |