Term: spy: (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
Candidate hypernym: organism: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently → 1
Candidate hypernym: arc cotangent: the inverse function of the cotangent; the angle that has a cotangent equal to a given number → 0
Candidate hypernym: tracing: the discovery and description of the course of development of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: dishwashing: the act of washing dishes → 0
Candidate hypernym: handbow: a bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow → 0
Candidate hypernym: doryopteris: small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: mechanism: the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction → 0
Candidate hypernym: hereditarianism: the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth → 0
Candidate hypernym: poll: a tame parrot → 0
Candidate hypernym: brightness constancy: the tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination → 0
Candidate hypernym: entoprocta: sometimes considered a subphylum of Bryozoa → 0