red flag
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 flag that serves as a warning signal
we didn't swim at the beach because the red flag was up
Types & categories
- warning signal hypernym
- signal flag hypernym
Sense 2 noun
the emblem of socialist revolution
Types & categories
- emblem hypernym
Sense 3 noun
something that irritates or demands immediate action
doing that is like waving a red flag in front of a bull
Types & categories
- annoying hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | warning signal |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | signal flag |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | emblem |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | annoying |