Term: behavior: the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
Candidate hypernym: action: the state of being active → 1
Candidate hypernym: zinc: a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende → 0
Candidate hypernym: flexure: the state of being flexed (as of a joint) → 0
Candidate hypernym: timepiece: a measuring instrument or device for keeping time → 0
Candidate hypernym: schutzstaffel: special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps → 0
Candidate hypernym: spergularia: chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry → 0
Candidate hypernym: ochroma: one species: balsa → 0
Candidate hypernym: agonist: someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) → 0
Candidate hypernym: plunge: a steep and rapid fall → 0
Candidate hypernym: lhasa: a breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs → 0
Candidate hypernym: renal insufficiency: insufficient excretion of wastes by the kidneys → 0