leaving
part of speech
noun (leavings, usually plural)
meaning for a pupil
Leavings are things left over, such as scraps of food left on a plate. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means stopping at a certain point, as in a search that goes from the oldest to the youngest brother. In the primary lessons: in stories leavings are the scraps left after a meal, often given to others to eat
examples
- And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack. (Torah GEN.44.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- The dog ate the leavings from the plate. tree →
- The mice found the leavings of a great feast. tree →
- Clear away the leavings after lunch. tree →
note
nothing for maths.
In the corpora
- People change jobs and move all the time; not every leaving hides a secret.
- You cannot honestly claim to feel sad the way people do; you should never make someone feel guilty for leaving.
- The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks.
- A jay's feather is blue because of shape: crush it and the blue is gone, leaving grey-brown.
- A soufflé sinks soon after leaving the oven because the air inside cools and shrinks.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «leaving» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.