silicon carbide vs carbide

silicon carbide and carbide both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
silicon carbide	Yes	No	No	No
carbide	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, carbide is a hypernym of silicon carbide; that is, carbide is a word with a broader meaning than silicon carbide:

silicon carbide: an extremely hard blue-black crystalline compound (SiC) used as an abrasive and a heat refractory material; crystals of silicon carbide can be used as semiconductors
carbide: a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element

silicon carbide (noun)	carbide (noun)
an extremely hard blue-black crystalline compound (SiC) used as an abrasive and a heat refractory material; crystals of silicon carbide can be used as semiconductors	a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element