ditch

«ditch» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a long narrow hole dug in the ground, often along a road… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (ditch, ditches); verb (ditch, ditches, ditched, ditching)

meaning for a pupil

1) A ditch is a long narrow hole dug in the ground, often along a road or field for water. tree →

2) To ditch something is to get rid of it or leave it (informal). tree →

3) To ditch a plane is to land it on water in an emergency. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means a pit or trench, and in the Bible it often stands for a trap or a place of filth. Interpretation: Proverbs warns that a harlot is a deep ditch, and the psalm shows the wicked falling into their own pit, which the tradition reads as wrongdoing trapping its doer. In the primary lessons: a length that is dug; metres dug each day, how long it takes a team; in farming ditches carry rainwater away from fields; in safety: a ditch by a road can be deep and full of water; phrases: «dig a ditch», «a last-ditch try» (a final try when all else failed)

examples

• Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. (Writings JOB.9.31, JPS 1917) tree →
• For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit. (Writings PRO.23.27, JPS 1917) tree →
• He hath digged a pit, and hollowed it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. (Writings PSA.7.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• They dig a ditch 60 metres long. tree →
• Each day they dig 12 metres of the ditch. tree →
• How many days to finish the ditch? tree →
• 2 workers dig the ditch together. tree →
• The car slid off the icy road into a ditch. tree →
• Frogs live in the muddy ditch by the field. tree →
• He ditched his old bike and bought a new one. tree →
• Rainwater runs along the ditch into the stream. tree →
• Caw! caw! a crow flew up from the ditch. tree →

note

Length ÷ length per day gives the days. A work problem: more workers usually means fewer days. Plural: ditches. «Ditch» as a verb is informal (ditch a plan = drop it).

In the corpora

• He hath digged a pit, and hollowed it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
• For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.
• Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
• The frightened old horse rears and backs, and drags the cart into the deep ditch: crash!
• Toad: «What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

Trees and pragmatics

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