Term: masking: the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation
Candidate hypernym: sensation: an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation → 1
Candidate hypernym: black panther: a member of the Black Panthers political party → 0
Candidate hypernym: creeping fern: delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds → 0
Candidate hypernym: first sergeant: a sergeant in the Army above the rank of staff sergeant and below master sergeant → 0
Candidate hypernym: air hammer: a hammer driven by compressed air → 0
Candidate hypernym: leech: a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage → 0
Candidate hypernym: bessemer process: an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost → 0
Candidate hypernym: cypriniform fish: a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes → 0
Candidate hypernym: cash surrender value: the amount that the insurance company will pay on a given life insurance policy if the policy is cancelled prior to the death of the insured → 0
Candidate hypernym: folder: covering that is folded over to protect the contents → 0
Candidate hypernym: bluster: a violent gusty wind → 0