partitive
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
word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole
Types & categories
- word hypernym
Related & opposite
- partitive derivation
Sense 2 adjective
(Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
a partitive construction
Related & opposite
- part pertains to
Sense 3 adjective
indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts
partitive tendencies in education
Related & opposite
- partitive derivation
- part derivation
- sectionalization pertains to
Sense 4 adjective
serving to separate or divide into parts
partitive tendencies in education
Related & opposite
- separate derivation
- part derivation
- divide derivation
- discriminate derivation
- disjunctive similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | partitive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | word |
| 2 | pertains to | Related & opposite | part |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | partitive |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | part |
| 3 | pertains to | Related & opposite | sectionalization |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | separate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | part |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | divide |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | discriminate |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | disjunctive |