bay
part of speech
noun (a bay, bays); adjective (bay — reddish-brown, of a horse); verb (bay, bays, bayed, baying — of dogs or wolves)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bay is part of the sea or a lake that curves into the land. tree →
2) A bay is a marked space or area for a special use, like a parking bay or loading bay. tree →
3) To bay is to howl with a long, deep sound, like a dog or wolf. tree →
4) A bay is a reddish-brown horse. tree →
5) A bay tree has shiny leaves used in cooking (bay leaves). tree →
6) To keep something at bay means to hold it back so it cannot reach or harm you. tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography a bay is a coastal landform, wider than a cove and smaller than a gulf; waves are gentler in a bay. In everyday life: parking bays, a bay window that sticks out, bay leaves in soup. In stories wolves bay at the moon. Phrase: «keep something at bay» (keep it away).
examples
- We swam in a sheltered bay. tree →
- Park the car in an empty bay. tree →
- The wolves bayed at the full moon. tree →
- Mum puts a bay leaf in the soup. tree →
- She rode a bay horse with a black mane. tree →
- Wash your hands to keep germs at bay. tree →
- The house has a big bay window. tree →
- All day long the army of the Persians was kept at bay. tree →
note
Countable: bays. Homophone: «bey» (an old Turkish title) — rare. A bay is part of the sea next to land; a peninsula is land sticking into the sea. «At bay» means held back.
In the corpora
- Coasts with hard and soft rock form headlands and bays, since soft rock wears back faster.
- The Bristol Channel and Canada's Bay of Fundy have some of the biggest tides in the world, over 12 metres.
- And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looked southward.
- And the border of the north side was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.
- Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea, and abideth by its bays.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bay» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.