partner
part of speech
noun (partner, partners); verb (partner, partners, partnered, partnering)
meaning for a pupil
1) A partner is a person who does something together with you, like a work or dance partner. tree →
2) A partner can be one of the owners of a business. tree →
3) A partner is a person someone lives with or is married to. tree →
4) To partner (with) someone is to work or play as their partner. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: In Proverbs it means someone who shares in a crime with a thief. The saying is read as a warning that one who joins a wrongdoer harms himself. In the primary lessons: In maths: people working or playing in pairs; things shared between partners; «partner work»; number partners (number bonds), like 3 and 7 for 10. In school: «turn to your partner». In everyday life: dance partners, business partners. In stories: partners in crime, partners on an adventure.
examples
- Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing. (Writings PRO.29.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- Each student has a partner. tree →
- She and her partner picked 30 apples. tree →
- Partners share the money equally. tree →
- How many partners are there in 12 students? tree →
- Find a partner and read together. tree →
- 6 and 4 are number partners for 10. tree →
- Mum and her partner run a bakery. tree →
- The two detectives were partners. tree →
- She partnered with Ava for the science project. tree →
- With what eagerness she danced! leaning on her partner’s shoulder she swept by like a whirlwind. tree →
note
Partners come in pairs: 12 students make 6 pairs. Sharing between partners = divide by 2. Trap: «she and her partner» means 2 people. An odd number of pupils leaves one without a partner (or makes a group of 3).
In the corpora
- Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.
- That new person is called their partner.
- A new partner does not replace your mum or dad.
- The children of a parent's partner can become your step-siblings: brothers or sisters through marriage, not by birth.
- Grown-ups also tease children about girlfriends and crushes, and older people sometimes find new partners late in life.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «partner» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.