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PUDDLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something resembling a pool of liquid

Example:

his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines

Synonyms:

pool; puddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid

Example:

the body lay in a pool of blood

Synonyms:

pool; puddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "puddle"):

billabong (a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently)

mud puddle (a puddle of mud)

Derivation:

puddle (make a puddle by splashing water)

puddle (wade or dabble in a puddle)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

covering material (a material used by builders to cover surfaces)

Derivation:

puddle (work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud)

puddle (subject to puddling or form by puddling)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate urine

Example:

Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

Synonyms:

make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Verb group:

ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)

urinate (pass after the manner of urine)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "puddle"):

wet (make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating)

stale (urinate, of cattle and horses)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mix up or confuse

Example:

He muddled the issues

Synonyms:

addle; muddle; puddle

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

confuse; jumble; mix up (assemble without order or sense)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a puddle by splashing water

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

plash; spatter; splash; splatter; splosh; swash (dash a liquid upon or against)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

puddle (a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make into a puddle

Example:

puddled mire

Synonyms:

muddle; puddle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

rile; roil (make turbid by stirring up the sediments of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Mess around, as in a liquid or paste

Example:

The children are having fun puddling in paint

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

mess around; monkey; monkey around; muck about; muck around; potter; putter; tinker (do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

bundle; compact; pack; wad (compress into a wad)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

puddle (a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Dip into mud before planting

Example:

puddle young plants

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

plant; set (put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 8

Meaning:

Subject to puddling or form by puddling

Example:

puddle iron

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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

forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

puddle (a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry)

puddler (a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Wade or dabble in a puddle

Example:

The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

wade (walk (through relatively shallow water))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue puddle

Derivation:

puddle (a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He only remembered that she was young and poor, a girl far away from mother's love and father's care, and he was moved to help her with an impulse as quick and natural as that which would prompt him to put out his hand to save a baby from a puddle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She turned her head as there was a light, dignified knocking at the front door. I went out and opened it. Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)