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CRENEL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement

Synonyms:

crenel; crenelle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("crenel" is a kind of...):

space (an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things))

Holonyms ("crenel" is a part of...):

battlement; crenelation; crenellation (a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns)

Derivation:

crenelate; crenellate (supply with battlements)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

Synonyms:

crenation; crenature; crenel; crenelle; scallop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("crenel" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply with battlements

Synonyms:

crenel; crenelate; crenellate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "crenel" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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