perspiration
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
sweat poured off his brow
Types & categories
- secretion hypernym
Parts & wholes
- water substance meronym
Related & opposite
- sweat derivation
Sense 2 noun
the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
perspiration is a homeostatic process
Types & categories
- bodily process hypernym
- hyperhidrosis hyponym
Related & opposite
- sweat derivation
- diaphoretic derivation
- hidrotic derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sweat |
| 1 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | water |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | secretion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sweat |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | diaphoretic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hidrotic |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | bodily process |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hyperhidrosis |