bask

«bask» in Mova's school dictionary: To lie or sit enjoying warmth, especially sunlight — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (bask, basks, basked, basking)

meaning for a pupil

1) To lie or sit enjoying warmth, especially sunlight. tree →

2) To enjoy attention, praise or success. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science about animals: lizards and snakes bask in the sun to warm up because they are cold-blooded. In stories: bask in praise or glory. Phrases: bask in the sun, bask in the glory.

examples

• The lizard basked on a warm rock. tree →
• Seals basked on the beach. tree →
• The cat basked in the sunshine by the window. tree →
• She basked in her teacher's praise. tree →
• The team basked in the glory of their win. tree →
• Snakes bask to warm their bodies. tree →
• Time passed on, and one morning Gon lay before the house door, basking in the sun. tree →

note

Usually "bask in". Basking shark: a huge, gentle shark that swims near the surface. Not "bath" or "bake", though the warmth idea is similar.

In the corpora

• Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.

Trees and pragmatics

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