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PIKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Meronyms (parts of "pike"):
pike (highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pike"):
Esox lucius; northern pike (voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere)
Esox masquinongy; muskellunge (large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America)
pickerel (any of several North American species of small pike)
Holonyms ("pike" is a member of...):
Esox; genus Esox (type and only genus of the family Esocidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
Synonyms:
expressway; freeway; motorway; pike; state highway; superhighway; throughway; thruway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):
highway; main road (a major road for any form of motor transport)
Meronyms (parts of "pike"):
carriageway (one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pike"):
autobahn (an expressway in a German-speaking country)
autostrada (an expressway in an Italian-speaking country)
toll road; turnpike (an expressway on which tolls are collected)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):
arm; weapon; weapon system (any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting)
Meronyms (parts of "pike"):
pikestaff (the staff of a pike)
spear-point; spearhead; spearpoint (the head and sharpened point of a spear)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pike"):
halberd (a pike fitted with an ax head)
partisan; partizan (a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries)
vouge (a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):
point (sharp end)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):
freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pike"):
muskellunge (flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish)
pickerel (flesh of young or small pike)
Holonyms ("pike" is a part of...):
pike (any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere)
Context examples:
He then commanded his general (who was an old experienced leader, and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Pike made painful efforts.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Pike, who pulled at Buck’s heels, and who never put an ounce more of his weight against the breast-band than he was compelled to do, was swiftly and repeatedly shaken for loafing; and ere the first day was done he was pulling more than ever before in his life.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk, Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
