dim

«dim» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: faint, not seeing clearly — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

faint, not seeing clearly

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Not bright, or not able to see well; in one sentence it is short for "diminutive." tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means not bright. In the Russian sentence "dim." is an abbreviation for "diminutive," meaning a small form of a word, which is an old use.

examples

• Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. (Torah GEN.48.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• It is called in the original a Kukla (dim. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. (Torah DEU.34.7, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

dim

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 49 (Torah 8, tales 41, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.6 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.
• And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
• Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
• Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
• How is the gold become dim!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dim» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.