Lexicographer files correspond to the syntactic categories implemented in WordNet - noun, verb, adjective and adverb. All of the synsets in a lexicographer file are in the same syntactic category. A word or collocation may appear in more than one synset, and in more than one part of speech. Each use of a word in a synset represents a sense of that word in the part of speech corresponding to the synset. Adjectives may be organized into clusters containing head synsets and satellite synsets.
Adverbs generally point to the adjectives from which they are derived.
Pointers Pointers are used to represent the relations between the words in one synset and another. Semantic pointers represent relations between word meanings, and therefore pertain to all of the words in the source and target synsets. Lexical pointers represent relations between word forms, and pertain only to specific words in the source and target synsets. The remaining pointer types are generally used to represent semantic relations. The location of a pointer within a synset defines it as either lexical or semantic.