Term: nim: game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: shrimpfish: slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates → 0
Candidate hypernym: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. → 0
Candidate hypernym: pulsation: a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity → 0
Candidate hypernym: lacquerware: a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals → 0
Candidate hypernym: period: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed → 0
Candidate hypernym: bread: food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked → 0
Candidate hypernym: sewing room: a room set aside for sewing → 0
Candidate hypernym: trench: a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth → 0
Candidate hypernym: loophole: an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation → 0
Candidate hypernym: trunk hose: puffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hose → 0