seller

«seller» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a person or shop that sells things for money — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (seller, sellers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A seller is a person or shop that sells things for money. tree →

2) A best seller is a book or thing that very many people buy. tree →

3) A good seller is a thing that sells well. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A person who sells goods. In Ezekiel, buyer and seller stand for ordinary trade that will stop. Interpretation: Ezekiel's words are read as saying that in the day of doom, business will not matter, and sold land will not be recovered. In the primary lessons: In maths a seller is a person in a money story: sells at a price, earns money, has goods left. Everyday: a fruit seller at the market, a ticket seller, online sellers. Opposite: buyer. In stories: a street seller, a flower seller.

examples

• So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. (Writings NEH.13.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• The time is come, the day draweth near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. (Prophets EZK.7.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive; for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any stand possessed of the iniquity of his life. (Prophets EZK.7.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• The seller has 50 melons. tree →
• The seller charges $2 per melon. tree →
• A flower seller sold 36 roses. tree →
• How much money did the seller make? tree →
• The ice-cream seller rings a bell as he drives down the street. tree →
• The book became a best seller in a month. tree →
• The seller gave me my change and a smile. tree →
• Always check that an online seller is real before you pay. tree →
• Let someone find the plum-seller at once and bring him to me! tree →

note

Countable: a seller, sellers. From the verb «sell» + -er. Money earned = price × number sold; things left = start − sold. Trap: the seller gets money while the buyer pays it. Do not confuse «seller» with «cellar» (a room under a house), which sounds the same.

In the corpora

• So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
• Some door-to-door sellers are scams, so say no politely and close the door or fetch a grown-up.
• Pets from bad sellers are often ill, and every kind of animal needs different care.
• Market sellers often say a rounded price out loud, so it is worth doing the sum yourself.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «seller» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.