lifeline
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 crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live
Types & categories
- wrinkle hypernym
Sense 2 noun
support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection)
the airlift provided a lifeline for Berlin
Types & categories
- support hypernym
Sense 3 noun
line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver
Types & categories
- line hypernym
Sense 4 noun
line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning
Types & categories
- line hypernym
- ridge rope hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wrinkle |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | support |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | line |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | line |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | ridge rope |