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hoops vs professional basketball

professional basketball vs hoops

hoops and professional basketball both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
hoops Yes No No No
professional basketball Yes No No No
As nouns, professional basketball is a hyponym of hoops; that is, professional basketball is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hoops:
  • hoops: a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
  • professional basketball: playing basketball for money
hoops (noun) professional basketball (noun)
a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop playing basketball for money
Difference between hoops and professional basketball

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