wool
part of speech
noun (wool — uncountable; wools for kinds)
meaning for a pupil
1) Wool is the soft, thick hair of sheep and some other animals, like goats and alpacas. tree →
2) Wool is also the yarn or cloth made from this hair, spun into thread to make warm clothes like jumpers, hats and scarves. tree →
3) Steel wool is a pad of thin metal threads for scrubbing. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: The ban on mixing wool and linen is the law of shaatnez. Tradition treats it as a "chok", a decree without a stated reason, and Jews still check clothes for it. In the primary lessons: In maths: a material measured in balls, grams or metres; wool used per scarf or per hat makes a rate. In science: wool keeps warmth in because it traps air; sheep are sheared once a year. In everyday life: knitting with wool, a wool jumper. Phrases: a ball of wool, knitting wool, made of wool, wool jumper, pull the wool over someone's eyes (trick them).
examples
- Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together. (Torah DEU.22.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- or in the warp, or in the woof, whether they be of linen, or of wool; or in a skin, or in any thing made of skin. (Torah LEV.13.48, JPS 1917) tree →
- This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean. (Torah LEV.13.59, JPS 1917) tree →
- He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. (Writings PSA.147.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. (Writings PRO.31.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- Ye did eat the fat, and ye clothed you with the wool, ye killed the fatlings; but ye fed not the sheep. (Prophets EZK.34.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- She has 5 balls of wool. tree →
- Each scarf needs 3 balls of wool. tree →
- A sheep gives 4 kg of wool a year. tree →
- She used 40 m of wool for a hat. tree →
- Grandma knitted me a wool jumper. tree →
- Farmers shear the sheep to get their wool. tree →
- Wool keeps you warm even when it is a little damp. tree →
- The kitten played with a ball of wool. tree →
note
Uncountable: «some wool», «a ball of wool». Adjectives: «woollen» (UK), «woolen» (US), «woolly». Say «wull». A material, not counted one by one; it comes in units (balls, kg, m). Uses per item make a rate.
In the corpora
- Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.
- He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
- She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
- Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring.
- A sheep called Chris was found in Australia in 2015 after years lost in the bush, carrying over forty kilograms of wool.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wool» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.