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BOUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An occasion for excessive eating or drinking
Example:
they went on a bust that lasted three days
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bout" is a kind of...):
revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bout"):
piss-up (vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinking)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bout" is a kind of...):
competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A period of illness
Example:
a bout of depression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("bout" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("bout" is a kind of...):
division; part; section (one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole)
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bout"):
top; top of the inning (the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat)
bottom; bottom of the inning (the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat)
Holonyms ("bout" is a part of...):
period of play; play; playing period ((in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds)
Context examples:
In the final bout, however, Sir Nigel struck his opponent with so true an aim that the point of the lance caught between the bars of his vizor and tore the front of his helmet out, while the German, aiming somewhat low, and half stunned by the shock, had the misfortune to strike his adversary upon the thigh, a breach of the rules of the tilting-yard, by which he not only sacrificed his chances of success, but would also have forfeited his horse and his armor, had the English knight chosen to claim them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
