whip

«whip» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a long thin rope or strip of leather with a handle, used… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a whip, whips); verb (whip, whips, whipped, whipping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A whip is a long thin rope or strip of leather with a handle, used to hit animals or, in the past, people. tree →

2) To whip means to hit with a whip. tree →

3) To whip cream or eggs means to beat them fast until they are thick and fluffy. tree →

4) To whip means to move or take something very fast: «She whipped out her phone.» tree →

5) (politics) A whip is a person in parliament who makes sure members of their party vote. tree →

6) (slang, US) A whip can mean a car. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons, whipped cream; in history, enslaved people and convicts were whipped as cruel punishment. In stories, a horse rider cracks a whip. In UK politics, «chief whip». Phrases: «whip up» (make quickly), «whip round» (UK, collect money from a group).

examples

• Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots; (Prophets NAM.3.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools. (Writings PRO.26.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• And now whereas my father did burden you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.' (Prophets 1KI.12.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• Whip the cream until it is stiff. tree →
• He whipped round to see who was there. tree →
• The circus trainer cracked his whip. tree →
• Let's have a whip-round for the teacher's present. tree →
• Mum whipped up a quick lunch. tree →
• Prisoners were whipped in the past. tree →
• The whip lay on his lap. tree →

note

Past: whipped (double p). «Whipped cream» not «whip cream» in UK. Whipping people is now illegal in most countries.

In the corpora

• Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;
• A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
• Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.
• A whip is the person in a party who tries to make sure its members vote the party way.
• smetAna is sour cream, put on borshch, vareNYky and pancakes; it is sour, not sweet like whipped cream.

Trees and pragmatics

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