mew
part of speech
verb (mew, mews, mewed, mewing); noun (a mew, mews)
meaning for a pupil
1) The soft, high crying sound a cat or kitten makes; to make this sound. tree →
2) The cry of a gull or other bird, especially the mew gull (a kind of seagull). tree →
3) (mews, UK) A row of old stables in a city, now turned into houses, or a small street with such houses. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Jewish law calls these birds unclean, so they are not kosher. The rabbis listed signs to tell which birds are allowed. In the primary lessons: In stories and everyday life, kittens mew when they are hungry; «miaow» or «meow» is the usual word for the sound. In the UK, a «mews» is a pretty, narrow street of small houses in cities like London. Phrases: mew softly, a mews house.
examples
- and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds; (Torah LEV.11.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- The kitten mewed for its mother. tree →
- We heard a tiny mew from under the shed. tree →
- Gulls mewed over the harbour. tree →
- My aunt lives in a mews in London. tree →
- The cat gave a sad little mew at the door. tree →
- A mew gull is smaller than a herring gull. tree →
- And then it mewed more than ever. tree →
note
Regular verb: mewed, mewing. Compare: meow / miaow (louder, the usual word), purr (happy rumble), hiss (angry). «Mews» (street) is singular with an «s»: «a mews». Pronounced MYOO, like «mule» without the «l».
In the corpora
- and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;
- and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;
- White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills to greet each other, while chicks hiss and mew before they learn to clatter.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mew» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.