kick up
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
raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand
Types & categories
- exercise hypernym
Parts & wholes
- handstand part holonym
Sense 2 verb
cause to rise by kicking
kick up dust
Types & categories
- lift hypernym
Sense 3 verb
evoke or provoke to appear or occur
Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- elicitation derivation
- incitation derivation
- bring up verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | handstand |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | exercise |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | lift |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | elicitation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | incitation |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | bring up |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | cause |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pick |