bike
part of speech
noun (bike, bikes); verb (bike, bikes, biked, biking)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bike is a bicycle, a thing with two wheels that you ride by pushing pedals. tree →
2) A bike can also mean a motorbike. tree →
3) To bike is to ride a bicycle. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing counted, with wheels; or a ride with a distance, speed and time; in safety lessons, helmets, lights and road rules; phrases «ride a bike», «bike helmet», «bike lane», «bike path»
examples
- There are 7 bikes. How many wheels? tree →
- She rides her bike 3 miles to school. tree →
- He bikes at 10 miles an hour. tree →
- A bike costs 150 dollars. tree →
- Always wear a helmet when you ride a bike. tree →
- I learned to ride a bike without training wheels. tree →
- We biked along the bike path. tree →
- Lock your bike at the bike rack. tree →
- His bike has a flat tire. tree →
- Use hand signals before you turn on your bike. tree →
note
Bikes have 2 wheels each, tricycles have 3: wheels = bikes × 2. Trap: a round trip is twice the distance. Safety: wear a helmet, ride on the correct side of the road, and use lights at night.
In the corpora
- That is still copying, the way repainting your mate's bike doesn't make it your bike.
- Squashed air pushes back hard, which is how bike tyres and footballs work.
- Leave a bike out in the rain all winter and its chain and bolts turn orange-brown and flaky.
- Whose shows belonging: «the girl whose bike was stolen».
- For one owner, add 's: the dog's bone, Sam's bike.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bike» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.