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BUCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("buck" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buck"):
stag (adult male deer)
Derivation:
buck (jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Synonyms:
buck; horse; sawbuck; sawhorse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("buck" is a kind of...):
frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buck"):
trestle (sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
Synonyms:
buck; long horse; vaulting horse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("buck" is a kind of...):
gymnastic horse; horse (a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
Synonyms:
Buck; Pearl Buck; Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
missionary; missioner (someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 5
Meaning:
A piece of paper money worth one dollar
Synonyms:
buck; clam; dollar; dollar bill; one dollar bill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("buck" is a kind of...):
bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they buck ... he / she / it bucks
Past simple: bucked
Past participle: bucked
-ing form: bucking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
Example:
the yung filly bucked
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "buck" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
buck (mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Move quickly and violently
Example:
He came charging into my office
Synonyms:
buck; charge; shoot; shoot down; tear
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "buck" is one way to...):
belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it (move hurridly)
Verb group:
dart; dash; flash; scoot; scud; shoot (run or move very quickly or hastily)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "buck"):
rip (move precipitously or violently)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Resist
Example:
buck the trend
Synonyms:
buck; go against
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "buck" is one way to...):
oppose; react (act against or in opposition to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
To strive with determination
Example:
John is bucking for a promotion
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "buck" is one way to...):
endeavor; endeavour; strive (attempt by employing effort)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
But usually it was as the friend of the great, the arbiter of fashions, the king of bucks, and the best-dressed man in town that his reputation reached us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hearty as a buck, sir.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a type and leader of a strange breed of men which has vanished away from England—the full-blooded, virile buck, exquisite in his dress, narrow in his thoughts, coarse in his amusements, and eccentric in his habits.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It was only last year,” said a very gentlemanly-looking officer, who might have passed for a buck upon town had his skin not been burned to copper in such sunshine as never bursts upon London—“it was only last year that I brought the old Alexander back from the Mediterranean, floating like an empty barrel and carrying nothing but honour for her cargo.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Quite a crowd had gathered in the Old Square: men and women, dark-coated tradesmen, bucks from the Prince’s Court, and officers from Hove, all in a buzz of excitement; for Sir John Lade and my uncle were two of the most famous whips of the time, and a match between them was a thing to talk of for many a long day.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At virst ’e vas that dazed that ’e didn’t know if ’e vas in church or in ’Orsemonger Gaol; but ven I’d bit ’is two ears ’e shook ’isself together. ‘Ve’ll try it again, Buck,’ says ’e. ‘The mark!’ says I. And ’e vinked all that vas left o’ one eye.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes, two bucks and a girl.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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