Term: near thing: something that barely avoids failure or disaster
Candidate hypernym: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening → 1
Candidate hypernym: shipping fever: a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market) → 0
Candidate hypernym: polyborus: a genus of Falconidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: near-death experience: the experience of being close to death but surviving → 0
Candidate hypernym: source of illumination: any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation → 0
Candidate hypernym: wykehamist: a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College → 0
Candidate hypernym: scissors: a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze → 0
Candidate hypernym: acuity: sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) → 0
Candidate hypernym: toothbrush: small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth → 0
Candidate hypernym: proscenium: the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) → 0
Candidate hypernym: rudd: European freshwater fish resembling the roach → 0