bald
part of speech
adjective (bald, balder, baldest); verb (bald, balds, balded, balding — rare, mostly "balding")
meaning for a pupil
1) Bald means having little or no hair on the head: "my grandad is bald". tree →
2) Bald can mean without the usual covering: "bald tyres" have their grooves worn down and are dangerous. tree →
3) A bald statement or fact is plain and simple, with no extra detail. tree →
4) Balding means losing hair. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories and descriptions, bald is a common feature of characters. In science, the bald eagle is not really bald: it has white head feathers. In road safety, bald tyres are dangerous and illegal. Phrases: go bald, bald patch, bald eagle, bald tyres, bald as a coot.
examples
- My grandpa is bald and wears a cap in the sun. tree →
- Dad has a bald patch on top of his head. tree →
- The bald eagle is the bird of the United States. tree →
- Bald tyres are dangerous on wet roads. tree →
- He started going bald in his twenties. tree →
- The bald fact is that we lost. tree →
- A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. tree →
note
Do not confuse bald (no hair) with bold (brave; thick letters) or bawled (cried loudly) — "bawled" sounds the same as bald. Calling someone "baldy" can be rude.
In the corpora
- Kind words soften the truth: wrinkles become "laughter lines" and a balding man is "thinning on top".
- "Thinning on top" is a polite way to say going bald.
- "Follically challenged" is a joking way to say bald; follicles are the tiny holes hairs grow from.
- And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
- For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bald» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.