rap
noun
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Sense 1 noun
a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
he took the blame for it
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Sense 2 verb
strike sharply
rap him on the knuckles
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Sense 3 noun
a gentle blow
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Sense 4 verb
make light, repeated taps on a surface
he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently
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Sense 5 noun
the sound made by a gentle blow
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Sense 6 verb
perform rap music
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Sense 7 noun
voluble conversation
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Sense 8 verb
talk volubly
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Sense 9 noun
genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
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Sense 10 noun
the act of hitting vigorously
he gave the table a whack
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | find fault |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | blameworthy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | reproach |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | whang |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tap |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | strike |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | knock |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | impinge on |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tap |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | strike |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rap |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | pink |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | blow |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dab |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | knock |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | tap |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | tapping |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | tap |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | pat |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | tap |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | tap |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | pink |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | pitter-patter |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | rap music |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | perform |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | rap |
| 7 | domain usage | Related & opposite | colloquialism |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | conversation |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | rap |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | talk |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | rap |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | black music |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | popular music |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | whang |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | knock |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | whang |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | rap |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | whack |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | blow |