blood

«blood» in Mova's school dictionary: The red liquid that the heart pumps around your body… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (blood — uncountable); adjective forms (bloody, bloodless)

meaning for a pupil

1) The red liquid that the heart pumps around your body through tubes called blood vessels. tree →

2) Family or ancestors: «They are related by blood». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: blood carries oxygen and food to every part of the body and takes waste away; red blood cells carry oxygen, white blood cells fight germs, platelets help a cut stop bleeding; the heart pumps blood through arteries and veins. In first aid: press on a bleeding cut with a clean cloth and tell an adult; do not touch other people's blood without gloves. Phrases: blood vessel, blood cells, lose blood, give blood, blood test, blood type, in your blood, cold-blooded, warm-blooded.

examples

• Your heart pumps blood all around your body. tree →
• Blood carries oxygen from the lungs. tree →
• There was a little blood on my knee after I fell. tree →
• Press a clean cloth on the cut to stop the blood. tree →
• Grown-ups can give blood to help people in hospital. tree →
• Reptiles are cold-blooded animals. tree →
• The nurse took a small blood test. tree →
• Blood looks blue in veins through the skin, but it is always red. tree →
• And out of the tree streamed blood. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some blood», not «a blood» or «bloods». The oo is said like the u in «mud». Myth: blood is never blue — it is dark red in veins and bright red in arteries. «Bleed» (bleed, bled) is the verb. In the UK «bloody» is also a rude word; avoid it.

In the corpora

• Many adults take a tablet every day to keep a long-term condition, like high blood pressure, under control.
• Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze.
• In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood because it looked right on screen.
• Elephant ears are full of blood vessels, and flapping them cools the blood; African elephants have much bigger ears than Asian elephants.
• Sharks smell blood well, but the story that they can smell one drop from miles away is exaggerated.

Trees and pragmatics

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