induct
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
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy
Types & categories
- install hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite
African men are initiated when they reach puberty
Types & categories
- let in hypernym
Related & opposite
- induction derivation
- enlightened derivation
- inductee derivation
- learned person derivation
- initiate derivation
Sense 3 verb
admit as a member
We were inducted into the honor society
Types & categories
- receive hypernym
Sense 4 verb
produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
Types & categories
- give rise hypernym
Related & opposite
- inductance derivation
- physics domain topic
Sense 5 verb
introduce or initiate
The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession
Types & categories
- teach hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | induction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | seat |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | draftee |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inductee |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | install |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | induction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | enlightened |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inductee |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | learned person |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | initiate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | let in |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | receive |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | inductance |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | physics |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | give rise |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | trigger |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | induction |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | teach |