buck


Overview of noun buck

The noun buck has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
                                           
1. (1) vaulting horse, long horse, buck -- (a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting)
2. dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam -- (a piece of paper money worth one dollar)
3. Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck -- (United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973))
4. sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck -- (a framework for holding wood that is being sawed)
5. buck -- (mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope))

Overview of verb buck

The verb buck has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
                                           
1. (2) buck -- (to strive with determination; "John is bucking for a promotion")
2. (1) buck, go against -- (resist; "buck the trend")
3. tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck -- (move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office")
4. buck, jerk, hitch -- (jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun buck

5 senses of buck                                                        

Sense 1
vaulting horse, long horse, buck
       => horse, gymnastic horse
           => gymnastic apparatus, exerciser
               => sports equipment
                   => equipment
                       => instrumentality, instrumentation
                           => artifact, artefact
                               => whole, unit
                                   => object, physical object
                                       => physical entity
                                           => entity

Sense 2
dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam
       => bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback
           => paper money, folding money, paper currency
               => currency
                   => medium of exchange, monetary system
                       => standard, criterion, measure, touchstone
                           => reference point, point of reference, reference
                               => indicator
                                   => signal, signaling, sign
                                       => communication
                                           => abstraction
                                               => abstract entity
                                                   => entity

Sense 3
Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
       INSTANCE OF=> writer, author
           => communicator
               => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
                   => organism, being
                       => living thing, animate thing
                           => object, physical object
                               => physical entity
                                   => entity
                   => causal agent, cause, causal agency
                       => physical entity
                           => entity
       INSTANCE OF=> missionary, missioner
           => religious person
               => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
                   => organism, being
                       => living thing, animate thing
                           => object, physical object
                               => physical entity
                                   => entity
                   => causal agent, cause, causal agency
                       => physical entity
                           => entity

Sense 4
sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck
       => framework, frame, framing
           => supporting structure
               => structure, construction
                   => artifact, artefact
                       => whole, unit
                           => object, physical object
                               => physical entity
                                   => entity

Sense 5
buck
       => placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
           => mammal, mammalian
               => vertebrate, craniate
                   => chordate
                       => animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
                           => organism, being
                               => living thing, animate thing
                                   => object, physical object
                                       => physical entity
                                           => entity

Hyponyms of noun buck

2 of 5 senses of buck                                                   

Sense 4
sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck
       => trestle

Sense 5
buck
       => stag

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun buck

5 senses of buck                                                        

Sense 1
vaulting horse, long horse, buck
       => horse, gymnastic horse

Sense 2
dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam
       => bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback

Sense 3
Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
       INSTANCE OF=> writer, author
       INSTANCE OF=> missionary, missioner

Sense 4
sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck
       => framework, frame, framing

Sense 5
buck
       => placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal

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Derived Forms of noun buck

1 of 5 senses of buck                                                   

Sense 5
buck
       RELATED TO>(verb) buck#4
           => buck, jerk, hitch

Domain of noun buck

1 of 5 senses of buck                                                   

Sense 2
dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam
       REGION>(noun) United States#1, United States of America#1, America#1, the States#1, US#1, U.S.#2, USA#1, U.S.A.#1

Domain Terms of noun buck
                                                                         

Familiarity of noun buck

buck used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)

Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun buck

5 senses of buck                                                        

Sense 1
vaulting horse, long horse, buck
    > horse, gymnastic horse
       => pommel horse, side horse
       => vaulting horse, long horse, buck

Sense 2
dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam
    > bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback
       => silver certificate
       => hundred dollar bill, c-note
       => fifty dollar bill, fifty
       => twenty dollar bill, twenty
       => tenner, ten dollar bill
       => fiver, five-spot, five dollar bill
       => two dollar bill
       => dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam

Sense 3
Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
    > writer, author
       => abstractor, abstracter
       => alliterator
       => authoress
       => biographer
       => coauthor, joint author
       => commentator, reviewer
       => contributor
       => cyberpunk
       => drafter
       => dramatist, playwright
       => encyclopedist, encyclopaedist, compiler
       => essayist, litterateur
       => folk writer
       => framer
       => gagman, gagster, gagwriter
       => ghostwriter, ghost
       => Gothic romancer
       => hack, hack writer, literary hack
       => journalist
       => librettist
       => lyricist, lyrist
       => novelist
       => pamphleteer
       => paragrapher
       => poet
       => polemicist, polemist, polemic
       => rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser
       => scenarist
       => scriptwriter
       => space writer
       => speechwriter
       => tragedian
       => wordmonger
       => word-painter
       => wordsmith
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       HAS INSTANCE=> Walpole, Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford
       HAS INSTANCE=> Walton, Izaak Walton
       HAS INSTANCE=> Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
       HAS INSTANCE=> Warren, Robert Penn Warren
       HAS INSTANCE=> Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh
       HAS INSTANCE=> Webb, Beatrice Webb, Martha Beatrice Potter Webb
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wells, H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells
       HAS INSTANCE=> Welty, Eudora Welty
       HAS INSTANCE=> Werfel, Franz Werfel
       HAS INSTANCE=> West, Rebecca West, Dame Rebecca West, Cicily Isabel Fairfield
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wharton, Edith Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
       HAS INSTANCE=> White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White
       HAS INSTANCE=> White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wilson, Sir Angus Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wilson, Harriet Wilson
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wister, Owen Wister
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Clayton Wolfe
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Wood
       HAS INSTANCE=> Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wouk, Herman Wouk
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wright, Richard Wright
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wright, Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine
       HAS INSTANCE=> Zangwill, Israel Zangwill
       HAS INSTANCE=> Zweig, Stefan Zweig
    > missionary, missioner
       HAS INSTANCE=> Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
       HAS INSTANCE=> Marquette, Jacques Marquette, Pere Jacques Marquette
       HAS INSTANCE=> Paul, Saint Paul, St. Paul, Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle, Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul, Saul of Tarsus
       HAS INSTANCE=> Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer
       HAS INSTANCE=> Serra, Junipero Serra, Miguel Jose Serra
       HAS INSTANCE=> Teresa, Mother Teresa, Theresa, Mother Theresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Sense 4
sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck
    > framework, frame, framing
       => airframe
       => arbor, arbour, bower, pergola
       => bustle
       => casing, case
       => climbing frame
       => clotheshorse
       => coaming
       => cornice, valance, valance board, pelmet
       => deckle
       => derrick
       => doorframe, doorcase
       => fender, buffer, cowcatcher, pilot
       => gantry, gauntry
       => grate, grating
       => grill, grille, grillwork
       => gun carriage
       => handbarrow
       => hayrack, hayrig
       => honeycomb
       => lattice, latticework, fretwork
       => mounting
       => oxbow
       => picture frame
       => rack
       => ribbing
       => sash, window sash
       => sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck
       => stocks
       => stocks
       => stretcher
       => tambour, embroidery frame, embroidery hoop
       => tenter
       => truss
       => undercarriage
       => walker, baby-walker, go-cart
       => walker, Zimmer, Zimmer frame
       => wattle
       => window
       => window frame

Sense 5
buck
    > placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
       => livestock, stock, farm animal
       => bull
       => cow
       => yearling
       => buck
       => doe
       => insectivore
       => aquatic mammal
       => carnivore
       => Fissipedia
       => aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer
       => bat, chiropteran
       => lagomorph, gnawing mammal
       => rodent, gnawer, gnawing animal
       => Ungulata
       => ungulate, hoofed mammal
       => Unguiculata
       => unguiculate, unguiculate mammal
       => hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das
       => pachyderm
       => edentate
       => pangolin, scaly anteater, anteater
       => primate
       => tree shrew
       => flying lemur, flying cat, colugo
       => proboscidean, proboscidian
       => plantigrade mammal, plantigrade
       => digitigrade mammal, digitigrade

Meronyms of noun buck

4 of 5 senses of buck                                                   

Sense 1
vaulting horse, long horse, buck
    => horse, gymnastic horse
        => gymnastic apparatus, exerciser
            => sports equipment
                => equipment
                    => instrumentality, instrumentation
                        => artifact, artefact
                            => whole, unit
                                  HAS PART: part, portion
                                  HAS PART: section, segment

Sense 4
sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck
    => framework, frame, framing
          HAS PART: backing, mount
          HAS PART: brace, bracing
        => supporting structure
            => structure, construction
                  HAS PART: foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
                  HAS PART: plate
                  HAS PART: structural member
                => artifact, artefact
                    => whole, unit
                          HAS PART: part, portion
                          HAS PART: section, segment

Sense 5
buck
    => placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
        => mammal, mammalian
              HAS PART: coat, pelage
              HAS PART: hair, pilus
            => vertebrate, craniate
                  HAS PART: belly
                  HAS PART: tail
                      HAS PART: dock
                  HAS PART: caudal appendage
                  HAS PART: rib, costa
                      HAS PART: costal cartilage
                  HAS PART: thorax, chest, pectus
                      HAS PART: sternum, breastbone
                          HAS PART: gladiolus, corpus sternum
                          HAS PART: manubrium
                          HAS PART: xiphoid process
                      HAS PART: thoracic aorta
                      HAS PART: thoracic vein, vena thoracica
                      HAS PART: gallbladder
                      HAS PART: area of cardiac dullness
                      HAS PART: pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis, musculus pectoralis, pecs
                      HAS PART: chest cavity, thoracic cavity
                          HAS PART: mediastinum
                      HAS PART: breast
                      HAS PART: rib cage
                  HAS PART: vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
                      HAS PART: metatarsus
                          HAS PART: metatarsal
                      HAS PART: tarsus
                          HAS PART: cuboid bone
                          HAS PART: tarsal, tarsal bone
                  HAS PART: digit, dactyl
                      HAS PART: phalanx
                      HAS PART: nail
                          HAS PART: half-moon, lunula, lunule
                          HAS PART: matrix
                => chordate
                    => animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
                          HAS SUBSTANCE: animal tissue
                          HAS PART: head, caput
                              HAS PART: muzzle
                                  HAS PART: snout, neb
                              HAS PART: ear
                                  HAS PART: vestibule of the ear
                                  HAS PART: eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane, myringa
                                      HAS PART: umbo
                                  HAS PART: organ of hearing
                                  HAS PART: fenestra
                                  HAS PART: auricular artery, arteria auricularis
                              HAS PART: basilar artery, arteria basilaris
                              HAS PART: brain, encephalon
                                  HAS PART: circle of Willis
                                  HAS PART: communicating artery, arteria communicans
                                  HAS PART: brain cell
                                  HAS PART: neencephalon, neoencephalon
                                  HAS PART: forebrain, prosencephalon
                                      HAS PART: peduncle, cerebral peduncle
                                      HAS PART: corpus callosum
                                      HAS PART: telencephalon
                                          HAS PART: cerebrum
                                              HAS PART: fissure of Rolando, Rolando's fissure, central sulcus, sulcus centralis
                                              HAS PART: fissure of Sylvius, Sylvian fissure, lateral cerebral sulcus, sulcus lateralis cerebri
                                              HAS PART: hemisphere, cerebral hemisphere
                                              HAS PART: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium, cortex
                                                  HAS PART: Golgi's cell, Golgi cell
                                                  HAS PART: cortical area, cortical region
                                                  HAS PART: frontal lobe
                                                      HAS PART: frontal area, frontal cortex
                                                      HAS PART: frontal gyrus
                                                      HAS PART: precentral gyrus
                                                  HAS PART: prefrontal lobe
                                                  HAS PART: parietal lobe
                                                      HAS PART: parietal gyrus
                                                      HAS PART: postcentral gyrus
                                                  HAS PART: occipital lobe
                                                      HAS PART: calcarine sulcus, calcarine fissure
                                                      HAS PART: occipital gyrus
                                                  HAS PART: temporal lobe
                                                      HAS PART: temporal gyrus
                                                      HAS PART: amygdala, amygdaloid nucleus, corpus amygdaloideum
                                              HAS PART: gyrus, convolution
                                      HAS PART: diencephalon, interbrain, betweenbrain, thalmencephalon
                                          HAS PART: mamillary body, mammillary body, corpus mamillare
                                          HAS PART: infundibulum
                                          HAS PART: third eye, pineal eye
                                          HAS PART: optic nerve, nervus opticus, second cranial nerve, optic tract
                                          HAS PART: pituitary, pituitary gland, pituitary body, hypophysis
                                              HAS PART: hypophyseal stalk
                                              HAS PART: anterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland, adenohypophysis
                                                  HAS PART: pars distilis, pars anterior
                                              HAS PART: posterior pituitary, posterior pituitary gland, neurohypophysis, pars nervosa
                                                  HAS PART: pars intermedia
                                          HAS PART: basal ganglion
                                          HAS PART: thalamus
                                              HAS PART: geniculate body
                                              HAS PART: subthalamus
                                                  HAS PART: subthalamic nucleus
                                          HAS PART: hypothalamus
                                  HAS PART: midbrain, mesencephalon
                                      HAS PART: substantia nigra, nucleus niger, locus niger
                                      HAS PART: superior colliculus
                                      HAS PART: inferior colliculus
                                  HAS PART: hindbrain, rhombencephalon
                                      HAS PART: cerebellum
                                          HAS PART: cerebellar artery, arteria cerebelli
                                          HAS PART: cerebellar hemisphere
                                          HAS PART: dentate nucleus
                                          HAS PART: vermis, vermis cerebelli
                                          HAS PART: paleocerebellum
                                      HAS PART: myelencephalon
                                  HAS PART: brainstem, brain-stem, brain stem
                                      HAS PART: medulla oblongata, medulla, bulb
                                          HAS PART: respiratory center
                                      HAS PART: pons, pons Varolii
                                          HAS PART: respiratory center
                                      HAS PART: reticular formation, RF
                                          HAS PART: reticular activating system, RAS
                                  HAS PART: ventricle
                                      HAS PART: spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid
                              HAS PART: skull
                                  HAS PART: craniometric point
                                  HAS PART: cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum
                                      HAS PART: jugale, jugal point
                                      HAS PART: zygoma, zygomatic arch, arcus zygomaticus
                                      HAS PART: zygomatic process
                                  HAS PART: sphenoid bone, sphenoid, os sphenoidale
                                      HAS PART: crotaphion
                                      HAS PART: pterygoid process
                                  HAS PART: eye socket, orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavity
                                      HAS PART: lacrimal bone
                                  HAS PART: endocranium
                                  HAS PART: cranium, braincase, brainpan
                                      HAS PART: asterion
                                      HAS PART: stephanion
                                      HAS PART: ethmoid, ethmoid bone
                                      HAS PART: temporal bone, os temporale
                                          HAS PART: glenoid fossa, mandibular fossa
                                          HAS PART: tympanic bone
                                          HAS PART: mastoid, mastoid process, mastoid bone, mastoidal
                                              HAS PART: mastoidale
                                          HAS PART: styloid process
                                      HAS PART: calvaria, skullcap
                                      HAS PART: frontal bone, os frontale, forehead
                                          HAS PART: glabella, mesophyron
                                          HAS PART: metopion
                                          HAS PART: ophryon
                                          HAS PART: frontal eminence
                                      HAS PART: parietal bone
                                          HAS PART: entomion
                                          HAS PART: sphenion
                                      HAS PART: occipital bone
                                          HAS PART: inion
                                          HAS PART: occipital protuberance
                                      HAS PART: coronal suture, sutura coronalis
                                      HAS PART: frontal suture, sutura frontalis
                                      HAS PART: lamboid suture, sutura lamboidea
                                      HAS PART: occipitomastoid suture
                                      HAS PART: parietomastoid suture
                                      HAS PART: sagittal suture, interparietal suture, sutura sagittalis
                                      HAS PART: fontanelle, fontanel, soft spot
                                      HAS PART: foramen magnum
                                  HAS PART: jaw
                                      HAS PART: alveolar arch
                                      HAS PART: alveolar ridge, gum ridge, alveolar process