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GUY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
Synonyms:
guy; guy cable; guy rope; guy wire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("guy" is a kind of...):
brace; bracing (a structural member used to stiffen a framework)
Holonyms ("guy" is a part of...):
collapsible shelter; tent (a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs))
Derivation:
guy (steady or support with a guy wire or cable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("Guy" is a kind of...):
effigy; image; simulacrum (a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture))
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An informal term for a youth or man
Example:
the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("guy" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they guy ... he / she / it guys
Past simple: guyed
Past participle: guyed
-ing form: guying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Steady or support with a guy wire or cable
Example:
The Italians guyed the Tower of Pisa to prevent it from collapsing
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "guy" is one way to...):
brace; stabilise; stabilize; steady (support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
guy (a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Subject to laughter or ridicule
Example:
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
Synonyms:
blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "guy" is one way to...):
bemock; mock (treat with contempt)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "guy"):
tease (mock or make fun of playfully)
lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)
debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)
stultify (cause to appear foolish)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
Research published by Albert Le Floch and Guy Ropars of French University of Rennes claims dyslexia may be caused by the way the photoreceptors in their eyes are arranged.
(Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, Wikinews)
"Makin' free to spit out what's in me," Matt said one day, "I beg to state that you was a wise guy all right when you paid the price you did for that dog. You clean swindled Beauty Smith on top of pushin' his face in with your fist."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In half a day I got the two topmasts aboard and the shears rigged and guyed as before.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"That guy's Mart Eden. He's nifty with his mits, lemme tell you that, an' he'll eat you alive if you monkey with 'm."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You shall not make a guy of yourself, remonstrated Meg, as Jo tied down with a red ribbon the broad-brimmed, old-fashioned leghorn Laurie had sent for a joke.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The shears were gone altogether. The guys had been slashed right and left. The throat-halyards which I had rigged were cut across through every part. And he knew I could not splice.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
What they liked, and were willing to scrap for, was just Mart Eden, one of the bunch and a pretty good guy.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"I just will, though, for it's capital, so shady, light, and big. It will make fun, and I don't mind being a guy if I'm comfortable."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I profited by my lesson learned through raising the shears and then climbing them to attach the guys.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
This necessitated my climbing the shears, which I did twice, before I finished guying it fore and aft and to either side.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
