BUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bunt mean? 

• BUNT (noun)
  The noun BUNT has 4 senses:

1. (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat

2. disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores

3. similar to Tilletia caries

4. fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores

  Familiarity information: BUNT used as a noun is uncommon.

• BUNT (verb)
  The verb BUNT has 2 senses:

1. hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

2. to strike, thrust or shove against

  Familiarity information: BUNT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Derivation:

bunt (hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bunt; stinking smut

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

smut (destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Similar to Tilletia caries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bunt; stinking smut; Tilletia foetida

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

smut; smut fungus (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)

Holonyms ("bunt" is a member of...):

genus Tilletia; Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bunt; Tilletia caries

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

smut; smut fungus (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)

Holonyms ("bunt" is a member of...):

genus Tilletia; Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

• BUNT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bunt; drag a bunt

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

hit (cause to move by striking)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

bunt ((baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat)

bunter (a batter who bunts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To strike, thrust or shove against

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bunt; butt

Context example:

The goat butted the hiker with his horns

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

strike (deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon)

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

headbutt (butt with the head)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something