brink

«brink» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The edge of a cliff, a steep place or water — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the brink, brinks)

meaning for a pupil

1) The edge of a cliff, a steep place or water. tree →

2) The point where something very good or very bad is about to happen: on the brink of war, on the brink of a discovery. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and news: on the brink of war, the brink of collapse. In science stories: on the brink of a breakthrough. In nature lessons, animals «on the brink of extinction» are almost gone. Phrase: on the brink of, pull back from the brink.

examples

• And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph: 'In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river. (Torah GEN.41.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and lean-fleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. (Torah GEN.41.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (Torah EXO.2.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• The mosses by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more. (Prophets ISA.19.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying: When ye are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, ye shall stand still in the Jordan.' (Prophets JOS.3.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• The tiger is on the brink of extinction. tree →
• The two countries were on the brink of war. tree →
• We stood at the brink of the cliff. tree →
• She was on the brink of tears. tree →
• Scientists are on the brink of a great discovery. tree →
• The team was on the brink of winning the cup. tree →
• Crying thus to himself, Iktomi stepped to the water's brink. tree →

note

Usually «the brink of». Similar: verge, edge. Safety: keep away from the brink of cliffs and quarries.

In the corpora

• And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph: 'In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river.

Trees and pragmatics

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