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anointing
Overview of noun anointing
The noun anointing has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. anointing, anointment -- (the act of applying oil or an oily liquid)
Overview of verb anoint
The verb anoint has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. anoint -- (choose by or as if by divine intervention; "She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group")
2. anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate -- (administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun anointing
1 sense of anointing
Sense 1
anointing, anointment
=> application, coating, covering
=> manual labor, manual labour
=> labor, labour, toil
=> work
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun anointing
1 sense of anointing
Sense 1
anointing, anointment
=> unction, inunction
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun anointing
1 sense of anointing
Sense 1
anointing, anointment
=> application, coating, covering
Antonyms of noun anointing
Member Holonyms of noun anointing
Substance Holonyms of noun anointing
Part Holonyms of noun anointing
Member Meronyms of noun anointing
Substance Meronyms of noun anointing
Part Meronyms of noun anointing
Meronyms of noun anointing
Holonyms of noun anointing
Attributes of noun anointing
Derived Forms of noun anointing
Domain of noun anointing
Domain Terms of noun anointing
Familiarity of noun anointing
anointing used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun anointing
1 sense of anointing
Sense 1
anointing, anointment
> application, coating, covering
=> anointing, anointment
=> fumigation
=> foliation
=> galvanization, galvanisation
=> lubrication
=> paving, pavage
=> painting
=> spraying
=> tinning, tin-plating
=> tinning
=> papering, paperhanging
=> plastering, daubing
=> plating
=> scumble
=> tiling
=> waxing
=> lining, facing
Meronyms of noun anointing
1 sense of anointing
Holonyms of noun anointing
Grep of noun anointing
anointing
anointing of the sick
Antonyms of verb anoint
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb anoint
2 senses of anoint
Sense 1
anoint
=> choose, take, select, pick out
=> decide, make up one's mind, determine
Sense 2
anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
=> bless
=> raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
=> make, create
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb anoint
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb anoint
2 senses of anoint
Sense 1
anoint
=> choose, take, select, pick out
Sense 2
anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
=> bless
'Cause To' of verb anoint
Derived Forms of verb anoint
1 of 2 senses of anoint
Sense 2
anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
RELATED TO>(noun) anointment#1
=> anointing, anointment
RELATED TO>(noun) anointer#1
=> anointer
Domain of verb anoint
Domain Terms of verb anoint
Familiarity of verb anoint
anoint used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb anoint
2 senses of anoint
Sense 1
anoint
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Somebody ----s somebody with something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb anoint
2 senses of anoint
Sense 1
anoint
> choose, take, select, pick out
=> empanel, impanel, panel
=> anoint
=> field
=> sieve, sift
=> draw
=> dial
=> plump, go
=> pick
=> elect
=> excerpt, extract, take out
=> cull out, winnow
=> cream off, skim off
=> sieve out, pick over
=> assign, specify, set apart
=> single out
=> think of
=> specify, set, determine, fix, limit
=> adopt, follow, espouse
=> screen, screen out, sieve, sort
=> vote in
=> elect
=> nominate, propose
=> vote
=> side, go with
Sense 2
anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
> bless
=> anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb anoint
Sense 1
anoint
=> choose, take, select, pick out
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Sense 2
anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
=> bless
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Grep of verb anoint
anoint
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