barley

«barley» in Mova's school dictionary: used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt — 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 (barley, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

A cereal plant like wheat, whose grain is used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography: barley is a crop grown on farms; in history, one of the first crops people grew. In food: barley soup, barley water (UK drink). Phrases: a field of barley, barley water, pearl barley.

examples

• The farmer grows barley in that field. tree →
• Barley soup is warm and filling. tree →
• Barley is used to make malt. tree →
• Barley was one of the first crops people farmed. tree →
• Lemon barley water is a British drink. tree →
• The wind made the barley wave. tree →
• They were flying about when three grains of barley fell on the floor. tree →

note

Uncountable. Other cereals: wheat, oats, rye, rice, maize. "Barley sugar" is a kind of boiled sweet.

In the corpora

• In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs.
• Sleep takes him «as a swathe of barley is folded into the arms of the reaping machine».
• And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
• a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
• So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

Trees and pragmatics

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