ex

«ex» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A person's former husband, wife, girlfriend or boyfriend:… — 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 (an ex, exes; informal); prefix (ex-); preposition (ex, Latin)

meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) A person's former husband, wife, girlfriend or boyfriend: «my mum's ex». tree →

2) As a prefix «ex-», it means «former» or «no longer»: ex-teacher, ex-president, ex-wife. tree →

3) (money, formal) «ex» means «without»: «ex VAT» means without the tax. tree →

4) The letter X. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here "ex." is short for "example", and "ex-" starts a word such as "express" or "explained". In the primary lessons: In adult life, after a divorce or break-up, people call their former partner «my ex». In news and stories «ex-» shows who someone used to be. In maths, «x» (said «ex») is often the unknown number. Phrases: «my ex», «his ex-wife», «ex-pupil», «ex-boyfriend».

examples

• Depth [note 15: עוֹמֶק ʽomeq ‘depth’ here is based on the metaphor of עֲמֻקָּה ʽamuqqah ‘deepness’ as a symbol of divine mystery, as found in Biblical poetry, ex. [Job 11:8], [Psalms 64:7], [Ecclesiastes 7:24]. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• The numeral system of tlie Sefer Tetzirah, as I have ex- plained, may be considered to consist of live symbols, |, ||, III, nil, 0, the cipher being the fifth symbol. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• As, according to the Sefer Yctzirah, it is possible to ex- press all numbers by the ten Sefirot"*), we must demonstrate liow all numbers, even those higher tiian nine, may be indi- cated by the ten strokes. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Dad still gets on well with his ex. tree →
• My aunt's ex came to the party. tree →
• Mr Lee is an ex-soldier. tree →
• She is an ex-pupil of our school. tree →
• The ex-champion now trains young swimmers. tree →
• In the sum 3 + x = 7, «ex» stands for 4. tree →

note

Informal as a noun; plural exes. As a prefix it needs a hyphen: ex-wife. Trap: do not confuse with «x» the letter used in algebra, which sounds the same. Sensitive word in family talk.

In the corpora

• Someone's «ex» is a person they used to be married to or go out with.

Trees and pragmatics

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