Term: english: (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
Candidate hypernym: spin: a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile) → 1
Candidate hypernym: radyera: very small genus of shrubs of southern hemisphere: bush hibiscus → 0
Candidate hypernym: sour cherry: Australian tree with sour red fruit → 0
Candidate hypernym: dystopia: a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror → 0
Candidate hypernym: pyrography: the act of producing drawings on wood or leather by using heated tools or a fine flame → 0
Candidate hypernym: closed corporation: a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market → 0
Candidate hypernym: evangelist: (when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John → 0
Candidate hypernym: pebble: a small smooth rounded rock → 0
Candidate hypernym: myxinikela siroka: fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes → 0
Candidate hypernym: stranger: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found → 0
Candidate hypernym: oka: a Turkish liquid unit equal to 1.3 pints → 0