Term: patent: an official document granting a right or privilege
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: war: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: hypertext system: a database management system that allows strings of text (`objects') to be processed as a complex network of nodes that are linked together in an arbitrary way
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: boringness: extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: brake: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: satureja: savory
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: seal oil: a pale yellow to red-brown fatty oil obtained from seal blubber; used in making soap and dressing leather and as a lubricant
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: jig: music in three-four time for dancing a jig
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: police action: a local military action without declaration of war; against violators of international peace and order
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: thymelaeaceae: family of trees and shrubs and herbs having tough bark that are found especially in Australia and tropical Africa
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: creek: any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma