shank
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
Types & categories
- cut of meat hypernym
- foreshank hyponym
- hindshank hyponym
Sense 2 verb
hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
Types & categories
- hit hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
Types & categories
- body part hypernym
Parts & wholes
Sense 4 noun
cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
Types & categories
- cylinder hypernym
Parts & wholes
Sense 5 noun
cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
Types & categories
- cylinder hypernym
Parts & wholes
- bolt part holonym
Sense 6 noun
cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
Types & categories
- cylinder hypernym
Parts & wholes
- bit part holonym
Sense 7 noun
the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
Types & categories
- part hypernym
Parts & wholes
- sole part holonym
Sense 8 noun
lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
Types & categories
- body part hypernym
Parts & wholes
- ungulate part holonym
- animal leg part holonym
- cannon bone part meronym
Sense 9 noun
a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
Types & categories
- golf stroke hypernym
Related & opposite
- shank derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | cut of meat |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | foreshank |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hindshank |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | shank |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | golf |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hit |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | leg |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | calf |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | body part |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | anchor |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | handle |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | key |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | nail |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | pin |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | wineglass |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | cylinder |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | bolt |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | cylinder |
| 6 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | bit |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | cylinder |
| 7 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | sole |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | part |
| 8 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | ungulate |
| 8 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | animal leg |
| 8 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | cannon bone |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | body part |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | shank |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | golf stroke |