panic

«panic» in Mova's mysticism dictionary: a sudden, very strong fear that makes people stop… — 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 (panic, a panic); verb (panic, panics, panicked, panicking)

meaning for a pupil

1) Panic is a sudden, very strong fear that makes people stop thinking clearly and act wildly. tree →

2) To panic means to feel this fear and act without thinking. tree →

3) In a panic can also mean in a great hurry and worry («a last-minute panic»). tree →

sense in the lessons

In the mystic school: In note 03 distributional panic is not an emotion but a rapid return of a model towards familiar, high-density ways of talking when it meets a strange world. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and safety pupils learn «don't panic»: in emergencies (fire, getting lost, water) staying calm and following a plan helps more than running about. Breathing slowly can stop panic. In stories panic builds tension. Phrases: «don't panic», «in a panic», «panic attack», «panic buying», «panic button».

examples

• This is the linguistic equivalent of panic — not emotion in the biological sense, but a distributional panic: a rapid return toward high-density states. (note 03) tree →
• The note calls this a "distributional panic": not a feeling, but a fast return toward high-density states, because the unfamiliar structure has low prior probability and the model cannot place it. (lesson 006) tree →
• The panic is worst when the strange worldview arrives with no logical bridge; but if you build a chain — median premise, tension, counterexample, revised premise, consequence, new structure — the model can travel much farther, because each step is a state it can reach: "It can walk", like crossing a river on stepping stones instead of jumping. (lesson 006) tree →
• Don't panic; just walk calmly to the fire exit. tree →
• When she lost her mum in the shop, she started to panic. tree →
• There was panic when the lights went out. tree →
• He panicked and forgot all his lines. tree →
• If you get lost, don't panic: find a safe adult to ask. tree →
• We were in a panic because we had overslept. tree →
• Breathe slowly when you feel panic rising. tree →
• Panic buying emptied the shelves of toilet paper. tree →
• The man who had found the purse fell into a panic. tree →

note

The verb adds k before -ed, -ing and -y: «panicked», «panicking», «panicky». Usually uncountable as a feeling; «a panic» for one episode. In a water emergency, panicking uses up energy; the advice is to float and keep calm.

In the corpora

• The book says carefully that this is NOT panic, but awe.
• Stamp!» The Butterfly flies back to Suleiman in a panic: now his wife will laugh at him for ever.
• Words ending in c add a k to keep the hard sound: panic, panicking; picnic, picnicked.
• Staying calm helps you think; panic does not sharpen your focus.
• For someone with a real fear, like of spiders or snakes, a fake one can cause panic rather than fun.

Trees and pragmatics

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