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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
grunt
1. the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
oink
• Hypernyms:
noise
2. an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
- infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts
- he went from grunt to chairman in six years
• Hypernyms:
unskilled person
3. medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
• Hypernyms:
percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
• Hyponyms:
margate, Haemulon album, Spanish grunt, Haemulon macrostomum, tomtate,
Haemulon aurolineatum, cottonwick, Haemulon malanurum, sailor's-choice, sailors choice, Haemulon parra,
porkfish, pork-fish, Anisotremus virginicus, pompon, black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis,
pigfish, hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus
• Member Holonyms:
Haemulidae, family Haemulidae
issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise (Freq. 11)
- He grunted his reluctant approval
• Derivationally related forms:
grunter
• Hypernyms:
utter, emit, let out, let loose
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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