apron
part of speech
noun (an apron, aprons)
meaning for a pupil
1) An apron is a piece of cloth you tie over the front of your clothes to keep them clean while cooking, painting or working. tree →
2) At an airport, the apron is the area where planes park and are loaded. tree →
3) The apron of a stage is the part in front of the curtain. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means a kind of clothing or wrap that the women of Jerusalem wore. It is one of the many finery items Isaiah lists. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and at school, children wear aprons for cooking, baking, painting and science experiments. Chefs, bakers and blacksmiths wear aprons. Phrases: put on an apron, tie your apron, a painting apron.
examples
- the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles; (Prophets ISA.3.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- Put on your apron before you start painting. tree →
- The baker's apron was covered in flour. tree →
- Grandma tied her apron and began to cook. tree →
- We wore aprons in the science lab. tree →
- My apron has a big pocket at the front. tree →
- The planes waited on the apron at the airport. tree →
- Dad's apron says Best Cook. tree →
- ‘What have you got in your apron?’ tree →
note
Countable noun; use an: an apron. Old phrase: tied to someone's apron strings means too dependent on a parent. Safety: tie long aprons so they don't catch on things in the kitchen.
In the corpora
- the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles;
- Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so artists wear old clothes or aprons.
- For his money Toad gets «a cotton print gown, an apron, a shawl, and a rusty black bonnet».
- An old shirt or apron protects your clothes from paint, which stains.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «apron» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.