jackknife
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 large knife with one or more folding blades
Types & categories
- pocketknife hypernym
Sense 2 verb
dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife
Types & categories
- dive hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out
Types & categories
- dive hypernym
Related & opposite
- jackknife derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pocketknife |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | jackknife |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | sport |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | dive |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | jackknife |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | dive |