swallow
part of speech
verb (swallow, swallows, swallowed, swallowing); noun (a swallow, swallows — a bird; a swallow — one act of swallowing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To make food, drink or something else go down your throat into your stomach. tree →
2) To move your throat as if swallowing, for example when nervous. tree →
3) A noun: a small bird with long pointed wings and a forked tail that flies fast and catches insects. tree →
4) To believe something too easily, or to hide a feeling: «swallow your pride». tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The earth swallowing the Egyptians at the Red Sea, and the thin ears swallowing the good ears in Pharaoh's dream, show things being wholly consumed. Interpretation: Tradition reads the earth swallowing the Egyptians as a sign of God's power over nature, and Pharaoh's dream as a warning about coming famine. In the primary lessons: In science: the body unit — you chew, then swallow, and food goes down the food pipe (oesophagus) to the stomach. In safety: small children may swallow coins, batteries, magnets or medicine — tell an adult at once; button batteries are very dangerous. In nature lessons: swallows migrate to warm countries in winter. Phrases: swallow it whole, swallow hard, hard to swallow, a swallow's nest.
examples
- And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. (Torah GEN.41.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand — the earth swallowed them. (Torah EXO.15.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. (Torah GEN.41.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up? (Writings JOB.37.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. (Writings PSA.106.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us; (Writings PSA.124.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Chew your food well before you swallow it. tree →
- My little brother swallowed a coin, so Mum called the doctor. tree →
- It hurts to swallow when you have a sore throat. tree →
- Snakes swallow their food whole. tree →
- He swallowed hard and walked on stage. tree →
- Swallows build mud nests under the roof. tree →
- In autumn the swallows fly south. tree →
- That story is hard to swallow. tree →
- One swallow does not make summer. tree →
note
Regular verb: swallowed. Two meanings that look the same: the action (swallow food) and the bird (a swallow). If someone swallows something dangerous (battery, magnet, cleaning liquid, pills), tell an adult straight away and do not wait for them to feel ill.
In the corpora
- And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears.
- And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears.
- For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
- Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand — the earth swallowed them.
- And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «swallow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.