linger
part of speech
verb (linger, lingers, lingered, lingering)
meaning for a pupil
1) To linger is to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed, because you do not want to leave. tree →
2) To linger is when a smell, feeling or illness stays for a long time. tree →
3) To linger over something is to take your time with it. tree →
sense in the lessons
Stories: «she lingered at the gate». Everyday: smells and colds that linger. School: «Don't linger in the corridors.» It tells the reader something is slow to go away.
examples
- For except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.' (Torah GEN.43.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him. (Torah GEN.19.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah. (Prophets JDG.3.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- We lingered on the beach until sunset. tree →
- The smell of smoke lingered for days. tree →
- Don't linger in the corridor. tree →
- A cough can linger after a cold. tree →
- He lingered over his breakfast. tree →
- The happy memory lingered in her mind. tree →
- Oh, sir, do not linger here, or he will eat you too.’ tree →
note
Regular: lingered, lingering. Adjective «lingering» (a lingering smell).
In the corpora
- For except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.'
- And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.
- Well, well, we won't linger over that now.»
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «linger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.