Term: house of correction: (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences
Candidate hypernym: correctional institution: a penal institution maintained by the government → 1
Candidate hypernym: warplane: an aircraft designed and used for combat → 0
Candidate hypernym: stool: a simple seat without a back or arms → 0
Candidate hypernym: surcoat: a tunic worn over a knight's armor → 0
Candidate hypernym: terminal velocity: the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity → 0
Candidate hypernym: gamebag: a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter → 0
Candidate hypernym: interpenetration: the action of penetrating between or among → 0
Candidate hypernym: antheridium: the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: aim: the action of directing something at an object → 0
Candidate hypernym: base pair: one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA → 0
Candidate hypernym: elevated railway: a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level → 0