occupy
part of speech
verb (occupy, occupies, occupied, occupying)
meaning for a pupil
1) To live in or use a building, room or space. tree →
2) To fill time or keep someone busy. tree →
3) To take control of a place by force, such as an army. tree →
4) To have a job or position. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Mordell's writing, it means to fill the place of something, as zero holds the place of a digit. In the primary lessons: In maths: "the table occupies 2 square metres". Signs: "occupied" on a toilet door means someone is inside. In history: the army occupied the town. Phrases: occupy yourself, keep busy, occupied with.
examples
- J{ecause the zero in the number ten occupies the space. of a digit, onlv nine strokes, not ten, are used: and, therefore, we (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- On the other hand, the n occurs at the end of words as silent, indicating that it occupies the place of a vowel letter. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- As zero is not a digit itself, but only occupies the place of a digit, so the silent n is not a vowel itself, but merely occupies the place of a vowel. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with Thy statutes continually. (Writings PSA.119.117, JPS 1917) tree →
- The family occupies the flat on the top floor. tree →
- The toilet is occupied: please wait. tree →
- Reading occupies me on long journeys. tree →
- The soldiers occupied the castle. tree →
- The table occupies a lot of space. tree →
- She occupies an important job at the council. tree →
- Keep the toddler occupied with toys. tree →
- I am glad to find that I still occupy a corner in your mind. tree →
note
y changes to i: occupies, occupied. Noun: occupation (job, or control of a place); occupant (someone inside). In area problems, the space occupied is measured in square units.
In the corpora
- Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with Thy statutes continually.
- "Nation-building" means occupying a country (moving in with soldiers and taking control) and remaking its government.
- Japan occupied Manchuria in 1931 and began full war on China in 1937; millions of Chinese died before Japan's defeat in 1945.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «occupy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.