suction
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a force over an area produced by a pressure difference
Types & categories
- pressure hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
remove or draw away by the force of suction
the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
the act of sucking
Types & categories
- consumption hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction
suction the uterus in an abortion
Types & categories
- void hypernym
Related & opposite
- sucking derivation
- suction derivation
- surgical operation domain topic
- suction verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | suction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | suction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | suctorial |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pressure |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sucking |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | suction |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | suction |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | suction |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | suck |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | wet-nurse |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | soak up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | suction |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | suck |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | suck in |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | suctorial |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | consumption |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | sucking |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | suction |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | surgical operation |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | suction |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | void |