Term: variance: an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)
Candidate hypernym: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization → 1
Candidate hypernym: desert sand verbena: soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: bight: the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) → 0
Candidate hypernym: processing time: the time it takes to complete a prescribed procedure → 0
Candidate hypernym: shade: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color → 0
Candidate hypernym: corvine bird: birds of the crow family → 0
Candidate hypernym: cabana: a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool → 0
Candidate hypernym: celestial equator: the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydromyinae: water rats of Australia and New Guinea → 0
Candidate hypernym: koan: a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning → 0
Candidate hypernym: eelgrass: submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts → 0