picket
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Types & categories
- watchman hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
serve as pickets or post pickets
picket a business to protest the layoffs
Types & categories
- march hypernym
Related & opposite
- picket derivation
Sense 3 noun
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
Types & categories
- detachment hypernym
Sense 4 verb
fasten with a picket
picket the goat
Types & categories
- fasten hypernym
Related & opposite
- pale derivation
Sense 5 noun
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
Types & categories
- protester hypernym
Related & opposite
- picket derivation
Sense 6 noun
a vehicle performing sentinel duty
Types & categories
- military vehicle hypernym
- picket boat hyponym
- picket ship hyponym
Related & opposite
- military domain topic
Sense 7 noun
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
Types & categories
- strip hypernym
Parts & wholes
- picket fence part holonym
Related & opposite
- picket derivation
Sense 8 noun
a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
Types & categories
- torturing hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | look out |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | spot |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | watchman |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | picket |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | march |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | detachment |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pale |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | fasten |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | picket |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | protester |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | military |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | military vehicle |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | picket boat |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | picket ship |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | picket |
| 7 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | picket fence |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | strip |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | torturing |