torrent
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
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 noun
a heavy rain
Types & categories
- rain hypernym
Related & opposite
- souse derivation
- inundate derivation
- flood derivation
- rain cats and dogs derivation
- torrential derivation
Sense 2 noun
a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid)
the houses were swept away in the torrent
Types & categories
- current hypernym
Related & opposite
- torrential derivation
Sense 3 noun
an overwhelming number or amount
a flood of requests
Types & categories
- lot hypernym
Related & opposite
- flood out derivation
- flood derivation
- oversupply derivation
- torrential derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | souse |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inundate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rain cats and dogs |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | torrential |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | rain |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | torrential |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | current |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood out |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | oversupply |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | torrential |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | lot |