bone

«bone» in Mova's school dictionary: one of the hard, white parts inside the body of a person… — 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 (a bone, bones); verb (bone, bones, boned, boning — remove bones)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bone is one of the hard, white parts inside the body of a person or animal that make up its skeleton. tree →

2) To bone fish or meat means to take the bones out. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, an adult human has 206 bones; they hold the body up, protect organs (the skull protects the brain, the ribs the heart and lungs) and work with muscles to move us. Calcium in milk and exercise help make bones strong. In safety, a broken bone needs a doctor; helmets and pads protect bones. Animals with backbones are vertebrates. Dogs love to chew bones. Phrases: «bone dry», «a bone to pick with you» (a complaint), «lazy bones».

examples

• The skull is the bone that protects your brain. tree →
• She broke a bone in her arm. tree →
• Adults have 206 bones. tree →
• The dog buried a bone in the garden. tree →
• Milk helps build strong bones. tree →
• Watch out for small bones in the fish. tree →
• Your thigh bone is the longest bone in your body. tree →
• The ground was bone dry after the hot summer. tree →
• A Wolf once got a bone stuck in his throat. tree →

note

Countable: a bone, bones. «Bony» = thin with bones showing, or full of bones. Myth: babies have fewer bones than adults — actually babies have more (about 300), and some join together as they grow. Bones are alive and can heal.

In the corpora

• A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage, which is lighter and bendier than bone, so shark fossils are mostly teeth.
• Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs.
• Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.
• Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.
• The human body has about 30 trillion cells of many kinds, such as skin, bone, muscle, nerve and blood cells.

Trees and pragmatics

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