billow

«billow» in Mova's school dictionary: a big rolling wave of the sea — 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

noun (billows); verb (billow, billows, billowed, billowing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A billow is a big rolling wave of the sea. tree →

2) To billow is to swell out and rise like a wave, as cloth does in the wind. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales the sea rolls in great billows; a sail or cloak billows in the wind

examples

• The sea rolled in great billows. tree →
• Her cloak billowed behind her. tree →
• Pray for those lost beyond the foaming billows. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.

Trees and pragmatics

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