twang
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
cause to sound with a twang
He twanged the guitar string
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Related & opposite
- twang derivation
Sense 3 noun
exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
Types & categories
- nasality hypernym
Related & opposite
- twang derivation
Sense 4 verb
sound with a twang
the bowstring was twanging
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Related & opposite
- twang derivation
Sense 5 verb
twitch or throb with pain
Types & categories
- throb hypernym
Sense 6 verb
pluck (strings of an instrument)
He twanged his bow
Types & categories
- pluck hypernym
Related & opposite
- twang derivation
Sense 7 verb
pronounce with a nasal twang
Types & categories
- sound out hypernym
Related & opposite
- nasal twang derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | twang |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | twang |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | twang |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | twang |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | twang |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | nasality |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | twang |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | throb |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | twang |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | pluck |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | nasal twang |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound out |