hacker
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
someone who plays golf poorly
Types & categories
- golfer hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
Types & categories
- programmer hypernym
- terrorist hypernym
Related & opposite
- cyber-terrorism derivation
- terrorism domain topic
Sense 3 noun
a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers
Types & categories
- programmer hypernym
Related & opposite
- hack on derivation
Sense 4 noun
one who works hard at boring tasks
Types & categories
- unskilled person hypernym
- slogger hyponym
Related & opposite
- labour derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | golfer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cyber-terrorism |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | terrorism |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | programmer |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | terrorist |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | hack on |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | programmer |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | labour |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | unskilled person |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | slogger |