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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 pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
he tried to pick up the strands of his former life
Types & categories
- pattern hypernym
Sense 2 verb
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
the travellers were marooned
Types & categories
- desert hypernym
Related & opposite
- maroon derivation
Sense 3 noun
line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
Types & categories
Sense 4 verb
drive (a vessel) ashore
Types & categories
- land hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a necklace made by a stringing objects together
a string of beads
Types & categories
- necklace hypernym
Related & opposite
- string derivation
Sense 6 verb
bring to the ground
the storm grounded the ship
Types & categories
- land hypernym
Related & opposite
- run aground causes
- ground derivation
Sense 7 noun
a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- filamentous derivation
Sense 8 noun
a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
Types & categories
- shore hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pattern |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | maroon |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | desert |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | line |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | ply |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | rope yarn |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | land |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | string |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | necklace |
| 6 | causes | Related & opposite | run aground |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ground |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | land |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | filamentous |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | fiber |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | barb |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | cobweb |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | chromatid |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | myofibril |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | rhizoid |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | hypha |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | paraphysis |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | shore |