teaser
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a worker who teases wool
Types & categories
- worker hypernym
Related & opposite
- tease apart derivation
Sense 2 noun
someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
Types & categories
- unwelcome person hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest
Types & categories
- advertising hypernym
Sense 4 noun
a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
he loved to solve chessmate puzzles
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
Types & categories
- opening hypernym
Related & opposite
- colloquialism domain usage
Sense 6 noun
a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
Types & categories
- flat hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 7 noun
a device for teasing wool
a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers
Types & categories
- device hypernym
Related & opposite
- tease apart derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tease apart |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | worker |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | twit |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tease |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | devil |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tease |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | unwelcome person |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | advertising |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | baffle |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | puzzle |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | problem |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | sudoku |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | acrostic |
| 5 | domain usage | Related & opposite | colloquialism |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | opening |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | torture |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | torture |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | flat |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | tease apart |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | device |