juice
part of speech
noun (juice, juices)
meaning for a pupil
1) Juice is the liquid that comes out of fruit or vegetables, like orange juice or apple juice. tree →
2) Juice is a drink made from this liquid. tree →
3) Juices are liquids in the body that help digest food (stomach juices) or come out of meat when cooked. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, a liquid measured in litres, cups or glasses; also boxes or bottles of juice counted and priced. In science, squeezing fruit to get juice; juice can be acidic, like lemon juice. In everyday life and health: juice has lots of sugar, so water is better for teeth. Phrases: «orange juice», «a glass of juice», «a juice box», «squeeze the juice out».
examples
- Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows? (Writings JOB.6.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, that thou mightest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate. (Writings SNG.8.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- Mia drank 300 ml of juice. tree →
- A bottle of juice costs 2 dollars. tree →
- They made 4 litres of juice. tree →
- Each child gets 1 box of juice. tree →
- She squeezed the juice from three lemons. tree →
- Can I have a glass of apple juice, please? tree →
- The peach was so ripe that juice ran down my chin. tree →
- Lemon juice tastes sour. tree →
- Ink he had none, so he used the juice of blackberries or cherries. tree →
note
Usually uncountable: «some juice», «a glass of juice»; «juices» for kinds of juice. Adjective: juicy. An amount of liquid (litres, ml) or a counted item (boxes, bottles). Trap: read whether the number counts bottles or litres.
In the corpora
- Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?
- Chop red cabbage, soak it in hot water, and you get a purple juice.
- The juice is an indicator: a colour that tells you whether something is an acid or an alkali.
- Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in alkali; not every plant colour changes the same way.
- Chemicals must never be poured into drinks bottles; people have drunk them by mistake from juice and water bottles.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «juice» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.