farther
part of speech
adverb, adjective (far, farther, farthest)
meaning for a pupil
1) Farther means more far, a longer way away. tree →
2) Farther can also mean more forward or onward: walk farther. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it is a slip for "further" (the text says "Miller farther says"), meaning "also" or "in addition"; it is not about distance. In the primary lessons: maths: comparisons of distance; «how much farther» asks for a difference (subtract); «n farther» adds n; PE: who threw or jumped farther; everyday life: farther down the road
examples
- Miller farther says: "The discovery of zero, as used above, implies its use in positional arithmetic. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Tom ran 5 km and Ben ran 2 km farther. tree →
- How much farther is the park than the shop? tree →
- Who threw the ball farther? tree →
- She lives 3 miles farther away. tree →
- The beach is farther than the lake. tree →
- We can't walk any farther. tree →
- Her paper plane flew farther than mine. tree →
- "Is it much farther?" asked Proserpina. tree →
note
Compare distances: «n farther» adds n; «how much farther» subtracts. Trap: read who is farther before subtracting. «Further» is also fine for distance, and also means more or extra (further help).
In the corpora
- A whistle can be heard much farther than a shout, and it does not wear out your voice.
- A sound from one side reaches the nearer ear a tiny bit earlier and louder than the farther ear.
- Stars do the same as Earth moves round the Sun, and the smaller the jump, the farther the star.
- The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer it takes to go around it.
- Gravity gets weaker the farther apart two objects are.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «farther» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.