habit
part of speech
noun (a habit, habits); adjective habitual
meaning for a pupil
1) A habit is something you do often and regularly, often without thinking about it. tree →
2) A good habit helps you, like brushing your teeth; a bad habit harms you or annoys others, like biting your nails. tree →
3) A habit is also the long robe worn by a nun or a monk. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health and hygiene lessons good habits are taught: washing hands, brushing teeth twice a day, eating vegetables, getting enough sleep. In lessons about growing up, a habit takes time to make or to break, and repeating something every day turns it into a habit. In stories a character's habits show their personality. Phrases: good habit, bad habit, break a habit, get into the habit of, out of habit, force of habit.
examples
- Brushing your teeth every night is a good habit. tree →
- Biting your nails is a bad habit. tree →
- I'm trying to get into the habit of reading every day. tree →
- It's hard to break a habit. tree →
- Out of habit, he looked both ways before crossing. tree →
- The nun wore a long black habit. tree →
- Grandpa has a habit of humming while he cooks. tree →
- Healthy habits help you grow strong. tree →
- He had one very peculiar habit. tree →
note
Countable: a habit, habits. «Get into the habit of» + -ing (get into the habit of reading). Do not confuse with «habitat» (the natural home of an animal or plant).
In the corpora
- The easiest way never to have a hard habit is never to start one.
- Many people pay every month for a gym and then stop going, because starting a habit is easy and keeping it is hard.
- Bots have no feelings to hurt, but polite asking keeps your own good habits strong.
- That is a friendly habit, not a real judgement of your question.
- Saying "Great question!" is a habit built into many bots, not a real opinion of your question.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «habit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.