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professional basketball vs hoops

hoops vs professional basketball

professional basketball and hoops both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
professional basketball Yes No No No
hoops Yes No No No
As nouns, hoops is a hypernym of professional basketball; that is, hoops is a word with a broader meaning than professional basketball:
  • professional basketball: playing basketball for money
  • 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
Other hypernyms of professional basketball include sport, basketball, basketball game.
professional basketball (noun) hoops (noun)
playing basketball for money 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
Difference between professional basketball and hoops

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