Term: lifeline: line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning
Candidate hypernym: line: something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible → 1
Candidate hypernym: ski resort: a resort with lodging and facilities for skiing → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus styrax: deciduous or evergreen shrubs and small trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: tickler coil: a small coil in series with the anode of a vacuum tube and coupled to the grid to provide feedback → 0
Candidate hypernym: catgut: perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone → 0
Candidate hypernym: common wheat: widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain → 0
Candidate hypernym: iridotomy: a surgical procedure that makes an incision in the iris of the eye in order to enlarge the pupil or to treat closed-angle glaucoma → 0
Candidate hypernym: nefariousness: the quality of being wicked → 0
Candidate hypernym: congressional district: a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives → 0
Candidate hypernym: laminariales: in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas → 0
Candidate hypernym: mare liberum: (free sea) a navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access → 0