Term: overture: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: corn cake: baked in a pan or on a griddle (southern and midland)
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: bathrobe: a loose-fitting robe of towelling; worn after a bath or swim
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: solid-state physics: the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals; superconductivity; photoconductivity
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: taxonomy: a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: total darkness: total absence of light
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: monarchy: an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: jamesonia: xerophytic ferns of South America
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: pickaback plant: vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: teleprompter: a prompter for television performers
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: oriental spruce: evergreen tree of the Caucasus and Asia Minor used as an ornamental having pendulous branchlets