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CROW

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Black birds having a raucous call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("crow" is a kind of...):

corvine bird (birds of the crow family)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crow"):

American crow; Corvus brachyrhyncos (common crow of North America)

Holonyms ("crow" is a member of...):

Corvus; genus Corvus (type genus of the Corvidae: crows and ravens)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Siouan language spoken by the Crow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Crow" is a kind of...):

Siouan; Siouan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An instance of boastful talk

Example:

whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade

Synonyms:

brag; bragging; crow; crowing; gasconade; line-shooting; vaporing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("crow" is a kind of...):

boast; boasting; jactitation; self-praise (speaking of yourself in superlatives)

Derivation:

crow (dwell on with satisfaction)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("crow" is a kind of...):

cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crow"):

cock-a-doodle-doo (an imitation of the crow of a cock)

Derivation:

crow (utter shrill sounds)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo

Synonyms:

Corvus; Crow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Crow" is a kind of...):

Siouan; Sioux (a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express pleasure verbally

Example:

She crowed with joy

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "crow" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

crowing (an instance of boastful talk)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Utter shrill sounds

Example:

The cocks crowed all morning

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "crow" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

crow (the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Dwell on with satisfaction

Synonyms:

crow; gloat; triumph

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "crow" is one way to...):

blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt (show off)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crow"):

congratulate; preen (pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue crow over the results of the experiment

Derivation:

crow; crowing (an instance of boastful talk)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The crows sailing overhead perhaps watched me while I took this survey.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He blew nigh the top of his head off with an old musket that they had for scarin' the crows with.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the very first morning after her arrival she was up and ringing her bell at cock-crow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They growled and barked like detestable dogs, mewed, and flapped their arms and crowed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Teddy wrote both, and keeps yours to crow over me with because I wouldn't tell him my secret.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was the last surviving member of the Voskhod programme crew.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

Oceanographic ship Ary Rongel set off Wednesday (Oct. 11) from Rio de Janeiro with 107 crew members to provide support for Brazil’s scientific research projects in Antarctica.

(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)

Be ready to offer a reasonable deadline for an upcoming project, as well as the number and type of crew you’ll need and the precise costs involved.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)