Term: war: an active struggle between competing entities
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: modulation: (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase → 0
Candidate hypernym: honey locust: tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World → 0
Candidate hypernym: partial veil: membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap → 0
Candidate hypernym: mess kit: kit containing a metal dish and eating utensils; used by soldiers and campers → 0
Candidate hypernym: ring ouzel: European thrush common in rocky areas; the male has blackish plumage with a white band around the neck → 0
Candidate hypernym: basso profundo: a very deep bass voice → 0
Candidate hypernym: tall bellflower: annual or perennial of eastern North America with long spikes of blue or white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: calash: the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage → 0
Candidate hypernym: thousand island dressing: mayonnaise with chili sauce or catsup and minced olives and peppers and hard-cooked egg → 0
Candidate hypernym: bus topology: the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar → 0