blood
1. the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets (Freq. 61)
- blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products
- the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions
• Derivationally related forms:
bloody
• Topics:
vertebrate, craniate
• Hypernyms:
liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
• Hyponyms:
arterial blood, blood group, blood type, gore, lifeblood,
bloodstream, blood stream, blood clot, grume, cord blood, menorrhea,
menstrual blood, menstrual flow, venous blood, whole blood
• Substance Meronyms:
serum, blood serum
• Part Meronyms:
blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle
2. temperament or disposition (Freq. 2)
- a person of hot blood
• Hypernyms:
disposition, temperament
3. a dissolute man in fashionable society (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, roue
• Derivationally related forms:
profligate (for: profligate)
• Hypernyms:
libertine, debauchee, rounder
4. the descendants of one individual (Freq. 1)
- his entire lineage has been warriors
• Syn:
lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline,
bloodline, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage,
stemma, stock
• Derivationally related forms:
parent (for: parentage), descend (for: descent), lineal (for: line)
• Hypernyms:
genealogy, family tree
• Hyponyms:
family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk,
sept, phratry, side
5. people viewed as members of a group
- we need more young blood in this organization
• Hypernyms:
people
smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
• Hypernyms:
daub, smear
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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