bout-n; 5 Senses

Sense Number 1: a period of intense activity

Commentary: BOUT[+expanse][+temporal][+period][+activity][+intense]

Examples:
They used to go on a lot of drinking bouts during their college years.
Mary does occasional bouts of strenuous exercise.
Last week we had a bout of thunderstorms.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 4

Sense Number 2: a period of illness

Commentary: BOUT[+expanse][+temporal][+period][+illness]
NOTE: always implies an ailment of a subject.

Examples:
She had a severe bout of flu last winter.
He's already had two bouts of prostate cancer.
Is her mother still having bouts of dizzy spells?

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: a fighting match

Commentary: BOUT[+event][+sports][+match][+fight][+boxing/+wrestling]

Examples:
His dream was to have a bout with the heavy-weight champion of the world.
We watched some wrestling bouts on television.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 4: curved side of a musical stringed instrument

Commentary: BOUT[+entity][+structure][+curved][+side][+instrument][+musical][+stringed]

Examples:
A violin has an hourglass shape formed by an upper bout and a lower bout.
It's a large guitar with a 16-inch lower bout.

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WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 5: none of the above

Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)

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