mortar
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 muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
Types & categories
- high-angle gun hypernym
Sense 2 verb
plaster with mortar
mortar the wall
Types & categories
- daub hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
Types & categories
- building material hypernym
Parts & wholes
- cement substance meronym
Related & opposite
- mortar derivation
Sense 4 noun
a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
Types & categories
- vessel hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | high-angle gun |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mortar |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | masonry |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | daub |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | mortar |
| 3 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | cement |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | building material |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | vessel |