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GUY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Guy mean?
• GUY (noun)
The noun GUY has 3 senses:
1. an informal term for a youth or man
2. an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day
3. a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
Familiarity information: GUY used as a noun is uncommon.
• GUY (verb)
The verb GUY has 2 senses:
1. subject to laughter or ridicule
2. steady or support with a guy wire or cable
Familiarity information: GUY used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An informal term for a youth or man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Context example:
the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink
Hypernyms ("guy" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Sense 2
Meaning:
An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("Guy" is a kind of...):
effigy; image; simulacrum (a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture))
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
guy; guy cable; guy rope; guy wire
Hypernyms ("guy" is a kind of...):
brace; bracing (a structural member used to stiffen a framework)
Holonyms ("guy" is a part of...):
collapsible shelter; tent (a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs))
Derivation:
guy (steady or support with a guy wire or cable)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it guys Past simple: guyed
Past participle: guyed
-ing form: guying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to laughter or ridicule
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast
Context example:
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
Hypernyms (to "guy" is one way to...):
bemock; mock (treat with contempt)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "guy"):
tease (mock or make fun of playfully)
lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)
debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)
stultify (cause to appear foolish)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Steady or support with a guy wire or cable
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The Italians guyed the Tower of Pisa to prevent it from collapsing
Hypernyms (to "guy" is one way to...):
brace; stabilise; stabilize; steady (support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
guy (a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent))
Context examples
Then you must be Sir Stephen Mackworth, for I learn that when old Sir Guy died he came in for the arms and the name, the war-cry and the profit.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I smiled in superior fashion, and, slacking off on one of the boom-guys and taking in on the other, swung the mast perfectly in the centre of the deck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"You guys keep out!" he screamed hoarsely.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A standardized survey developed by W. Guy in 1976 which is used to evaluate the efficacy of a therapeutic intervention.
(Clinical Global Impression Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
It’s enough to make a man bug-house when he has to play a part from morning to night with a hundred guys all ready to set the coppers wise to him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was capital, but see what a guy it's made me.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He also commented on the future, This is only the beginning and I am very lucky to win (...) It's deserved but in the future these guys will be tougher to beat.
(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)
He was close beside me, when I walked away from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers into the still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A standardized rating scale developed by William Guy in 1976 which is used to evaluate the severity of tardive dyskinesia in individuals taking neuroleptic agents.
(Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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