natural
part of speech
adjective (natural, more natural, most natural); noun (a natural — informal)
meaning for a pupil
1) Natural means made by nature, not by people or machines, like natural rock or natural light. tree →
2) Natural also means normal or expected: «It's natural to feel nervous». tree →
3) Natural can mean not fake or pretended. tree →
4) A natural is someone who is very good at something without trying hard. tree →
5) Natural history is the study of plants, animals and other living things in nature. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Tradition reads Moses' undimmed eye as a sign of his special closeness to God. The Natural Intelligence is one of the paths through which every being is completed. In the primary lessons: In science, natural materials (wood, wool, stone, cotton) come from nature, while man-made ones (plastic, nylon) are made by people; natural resources include water, soil and oil. Natural disasters are earthquakes, floods and hurricanes. In maths, the natural numbers are the counting numbers 1, 2, 3, … (some books also include 0). In feelings lessons, it is natural to feel sad, angry or scared sometimes. Phrases: natural world, natural disaster, natural numbers, natural resources, naturally.
examples
- And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. (Torah DEU.34.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- III, 2, prove undoubtedly that he had no knowledge whatever of natural science, and therefore his annotations on the book "Yezirah" are of little or no use at all. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- The Twenty-eighth Path is the Natural Intelligence, and is so called because through it is consummated and perfected the nature of every existent being under the orb of the Sun, in perfection. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- Wood is a natural material; plastic is not. tree →
- It's natural to feel nervous before a test. tree →
- An earthquake is a natural disaster. tree →
- The room has lots of natural light. tree →
- Natural numbers are the numbers we count with. tree →
- She's a natural at swimming. tree →
- Just smile and be natural for the photo. tree →
- Rivers and mountains are natural features. tree →
note
Opposite: unnatural, artificial or man-made. Adverb: naturally, which also means «of course». «Natural» does not always mean safe: poisonous mushrooms and snake venom are natural too.
In the corpora
- And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
- Photographing children and animals from their eye level makes the picture feel closer and more natural.
- Many zoos have stopped tricks like ball balancing and show natural behaviour instead.
- Alfred Russel Wallace came up with the same idea of natural selection at the same time as Darwin.
- Alice sits with her face in her hands, wondering if anything will ever happen in a natural way again.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «natural» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.