apron

«apron» in Mova's school dictionary: a piece of cloth you tie over the front of your clothes… — 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 (an apron, aprons)

meaning for a pupil

1) An apron is a piece of cloth you tie over the front of your clothes to keep them clean while cooking, painting or working. tree →

2) At an airport, the apron is the area where planes park and are loaded. tree →

3) The apron of a stage is the part in front of the curtain. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and at school, children wear aprons for cooking, baking, painting and science experiments. Chefs, bakers and blacksmiths wear aprons. Phrases: put on an apron, tie your apron, a painting apron.

examples

• Put on your apron before you start painting. tree →
• The baker's apron was covered in flour. tree →
• Grandma tied her apron and began to cook. tree →
• We wore aprons in the science lab. tree →
• My apron has a big pocket at the front. tree →
• The planes waited on the apron at the airport. tree →
• Dad's apron says Best Cook. tree →
• ‘What have you got in your apron?’ tree →

note

Countable noun; use an: an apron. Old phrase: tied to someone's apron strings means too dependent on a parent. Safety: tie long aprons so they don't catch on things in the kitchen.

In the corpora

• Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so artists wear old clothes or aprons.
• For his money Toad gets «a cotton print gown, an apron, a shawl, and a rusty black bonnet».
• An old shirt or apron protects your clothes from paint, which stains.
• the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles;

Trees and pragmatics

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