sounding board
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 person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability
I would use newspapermen as a sounding board for such policies
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Sense 2 noun
(music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument
Types & categories
- resonator hypernym
Parts & wholes
- piano part holonym
- stringed instrument part holonym
- sound hole part meronym
Related & opposite
- music domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | piano |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | stringed instrument |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | sound hole |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | resonator |