Ypres
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
Types & categories
- pitched battle instance hypernym
Parts & wholes
- World War I part holonym
Related & opposite
- Belgium domain region
Sense 2 noun
battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
Types & categories
- pitched battle instance hypernym
Parts & wholes
- World War I part holonym
Related & opposite
- Belgium domain region
Sense 3 noun
battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
Types & categories
- pitched battle instance hypernym
Parts & wholes
- World War I part holonym
Related & opposite
- Belgium domain region
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain region | Related & opposite | Belgium |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | World War I |
| 1 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | pitched battle |
| 2 | domain region | Related & opposite | Belgium |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | World War I |
| 2 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | pitched battle |
| 3 | domain region | Related & opposite | Belgium |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | World War I |
| 3 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | pitched battle |