bear
part of speech
noun (bear, bears); verb (bear, bears, bore, borne, bearing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bear is a big, strong animal with thick fur, like a brown bear, polar bear or black bear. tree →
2) A teddy bear is a soft toy bear. tree →
3) To bear means to carry or hold up a weight: the bridge can bear 10 tons. tree →
4) To bear something also means to put up with it: I cannot bear the noise. tree →
5) To bear fruit is to grow fruit. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: an animal or a teddy bear counted; «can bear 10 tons» is a limit, the most it can hold. In science: bears hibernate (sleep through winter); polar bears live in the Arctic. Safety: in parks with bears, keep food locked away and never go near a bear. Phrases: teddy bear, polar bear, bear in mind, cannot bear, bear weight, bear left (keep to the left).
examples
- There are 12 teddy bears on the shelf. tree →
- A bear ate 6 fish. tree →
- Each bear sleeps 5 months a year. tree →
- The bridge can bear 10 tons. tree →
- Polar bears live in the Arctic. tree →
- Goldilocks met three bears. tree →
- Bear in mind that the shop closes early. tree →
- I cannot bear spiders! tree →
- The apple tree bears fruit in autumn. tree →
- I cannot bear it any longer! tree →
note
Homophone: «bare» (with nothing on) sounds the same. Verb past «bore», «borne». Just the thing counted. Trap: «can bear 10 tons» is a limit, the most it can hold.
In the corpora
- When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born.
- "We're expecting" means a baby is growing inside Mum and will be born in a few months.
- There are eight species of bear, and the koala is not one of them but a marsupial.
- Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter.
- Black and brown bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter and are only about the size of a guinea pig.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bear» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.