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FENCING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fencing" is a kind of...):
play; swordplay (the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully)
combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)
Domain member category:
lunge; passado; straight thrust ((fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward)
parry ((fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword)
remise ((fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte))
riposte ((fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge)
epee (a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade)
foil (a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button)
piste (a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts)
saber; sabre (a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle)
riposte (make a return thrust)
Derivation:
fence (fight with fencing swords)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A barrier that serves to enclose an area
Synonyms:
fence; fencing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fencing" is a kind of...):
barrier (a structure or object that impedes free movement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fencing"):
backstop ((baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field)
chainlink fence (a fence of steel wires woven into a diamond pattern)
hedge; hedgerow (a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes)
paling; picket fence (a fence made of upright pickets)
rail fence; split-rail fence (a fence (usually made of split logs laid across each other at an angle))
stone wall (a fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields)
wall (a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden))
weir (a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish)
Holonyms ("fencing" is a part of...):
fence line (a boundary line created by a fence)
Derivation:
fence (enclose with a fence)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Material for building fences
Synonyms:
fencing; fencing material
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fencing" is a kind of...):
building material (material used for constructing buildings)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb fence
