Term: distortion: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Candidate hypernym: falsification: a willful perversion of facts → 1
Candidate hypernym: fallboard: the hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played → 0
Candidate hypernym: flyweight: an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: fungus genus: includes lichen genera → 0
Candidate hypernym: infrared ray: a ray of infrared radiation; produces a thermal effect (as from an infrared lamp) → 0
Candidate hypernym: boom: any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring → 0
Candidate hypernym: dislocation: an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity → 0
Candidate hypernym: sandwich board: signboard consisting of two hinged boards that hang front and back from the shoulders of a walker and are used to display advertisements → 0
Candidate hypernym: ovenbird: small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests → 0
Candidate hypernym: inner city: the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city → 0
Candidate hypernym: frame: one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided → 0