Dictionary entry details
• HORSE (noun)
Meaning:
Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Equus caballus; horse
Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):
equid; equine (hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck)
Meronyms (parts of "horse"):
encolure (the mane of a horse)
horseflesh; horsemeat (the flesh of horses as food)
poll (the part of the head between the ears)
gaskin (lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle)
withers (the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals)
horse's foot; horse's hoof (the hoof of a horse)
horseback (the back of a horse)
Meronyms (members of "horse"):
foal (a young horse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse"):
steeplechaser (a horse trained to run in steeplechases)
bangtail; race horse; racehorse (a horse bred for racing)
pinto (a spotted or calico horse or pony)
stalking-horse (a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game)
harness horse (horse used for pulling vehicles)
workhorse (a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor)
post horse; post-horse; poster (a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers)
pacer (a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together)
high stepper; stepper (a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting)
chestnut (a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse)
liver chestnut (a solid dark brown horse)
bay (a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color)
sorrel (a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color)
pony (any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder)
hack; jade; nag; plug (an old or over-worked horse)
hack (a horse kept for hire)
roan (a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray)
stable companion; stablemate (a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person)
gee-gee (a word for horse used by children or in adult slang)
dawn horse; eohippus (earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal)
mesohippus (North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses)
protohippus (Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size)
male horse (the male of species Equus caballus)
female horse; mare (female equine animal)
mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)
pony (a range horse of the western United States)
polo pony (a small agile horse specially bred and trained for playing polo)
wild horse (undomesticated or feral domestic horse)
palomino (a horse of light tan or golden color with cream or white mane and tail)
Holonyms ("horse" is a member of...):
Equus; genus Equus (type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae)
Meaning:
A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
gymnastic horse; horse
Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):
exerciser; gymnastic apparatus (sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse"):
pommel horse; side horse (a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center; held upright by two steel supports, one at each end)
buck; long horse; vaulting horse (a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting)
Meaning:
Troops trained to fight on horseback
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
cavalry; horse cavalry; horse
Context example:
500 horse led the attack
Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):
military personnel; soldiery; troops (soldiers collectively)
Meronyms (members of "horse"):
cavalryman; trooper (a soldier in a motorized army unit)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Meaning:
A framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
sawhorse; sawbuck; horse; buck
Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):
frame; framework; framing (a structure supporting or containing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse"):
trestle (sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop)
Meaning:
A chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
knight; horse
Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):
chess piece; chessman (any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess)
Domain category:
chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)
• HORSE (verb)
Meaning:
Provide with a horse or horses
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "horse" is one way to...):
cater; ply; provide; supply (provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "horse"):
remount (provide with fresh horses)
Sentence frames:
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