knocker
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
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person
Types & categories
- big deal hypernym
Related & opposite
- Yiddish domain topic
Sense 2 noun
a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance)
open the door and see who the knocker is
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Related & opposite
- knock derivation
Sense 3 noun
one who disparages or belittles the worth of something
Types & categories
- cynic hypernym
- defamer hyponym
- hatemonger hyponym
- muckraker hyponym
Related & opposite
- detract derivation
- disparage derivation
- depreciate derivation
Sense 4 noun
either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
Types & categories
- mammary gland hypernym
Parts & wholes
- adult female body part holonym
- lactiferous duct part meronym
- ring of color part meronym
Related & opposite
- buxom derivation
Sense 5 noun
a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
Types & categories
- device hypernym
Parts & wholes
- front door part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Yiddish |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | big deal |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | knock |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | detract |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | disparage |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | depreciate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | cynic |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | defamer |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hatemonger |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | muckraker |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | buxom |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | adult female body |
| 4 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | lactiferous duct |
| 4 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | ring of color |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | mammary gland |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | front door |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | device |