stilt
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
Types & categories
- pillar hypernym
- sheet pile hyponym
Sense 2 noun
one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground
he was so tall I thought he was on stilts
Types & categories
- pole hypernym
Sense 3 noun
long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
Types & categories
- shorebird hypernym
- banded stilt hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Cladorhyncus member holonym
Sense 4 noun
long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
Types & categories
- shorebird hypernym
- black-necked stilt hyponym
- black-winged stilt hyponym
- white-headed stilt hyponym
- Himantopus novae-zelandiae hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Himantopus member holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pillar |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sheet pile |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pole |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Cladorhyncus |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | shorebird |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | banded stilt |
| 4 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Himantopus |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | shorebird |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | black-necked stilt |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | black-winged stilt |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | white-headed stilt |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Himantopus novae-zelandiae |