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HOBBY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An auxiliary activity
Synonyms:
avocation; by-line; hobby; pursuit; sideline; spare-time activity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hobby" is a kind of...):
interest; pastime; pursuit (a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hobby"):
spelaeology; speleology (the pastime of exploring caves)
Derivation:
hobbyist (a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds
Synonyms:
Falco subbuteo; hobby
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hobby" is a kind of...):
falcon (diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight)
Holonyms ("hobby" is a member of...):
Falco; genus Falco (a genus of Falconidae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride
Synonyms:
hobby; hobbyhorse; rocking horse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hobby" is a kind of...):
plaything; toy (an artifact designed to be played with)
Meronyms (parts of "hobby"):
rocker (a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro)
Context examples:
Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Playing a game of skill, working on a hobby.
(FAQ-NACC Version - Play Game of Skill, Work on Hobby, NCI Thesaurus)
Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) Playing a game of skill, working on a hobby.
(FAQ - Play Game of Skill, Work on Hobby, NCI Thesaurus)
Mr. Bhaer soon joined her, looking rather out of his element, and presently several of the philosophers, each mounted on his hobby, came ambling up to hold an intellectual tournament in the recess.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Certain jobs such as industrial jobs or hobbies such as carpentry make this type of injury more likely.
(Eye Injuries, NIH)
I knew that the opening of safes was a particular hobby with him, and I understood the joy which it gave him to be confronted with this green and gold monster, the dragon which held in its maw the reputations of many fair ladies.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You could be exposed to lead by: • Eating food or drinking water that contains lead • Working in a job where lead is used • Using lead in a hobby, such as making stained glass or lead-glazed pottery • Using folk remedies such as herbs or foods that contain lead
(Lead Poisoning, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry)
It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Spiders at present are his hobby and the note-book is filling up with columns of small figures.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you could persuade him to come here and give us the benefit of his unique experience of this disease, the investigation of which has been his dearest hobby, I cannot doubt that he could help me.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
