bones

«bones» in Mova's school dictionary: The hard white parts inside your body that make your… — 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 (plural of bone: a bone, bones); verb (bone — to take bones out of fish or meat)

meaning for a pupil

1) The hard white parts inside your body that make your skeleton. tree →

2) Pieces of these from animals, for example in meat or fish, or given to a dog. tree →

3) In phrases: the main parts or outline (the bare bones of a story). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: an adult has 206 bones, a baby has about 300 that join together; bones support the body, protect organs (the skull protects the brain, ribs protect the heart and lungs) and work with muscles to move; calcium from milk and exercise keep bones strong. In first aid: a broken bone needs a doctor, keep it still. Phrases: broken bones, skull and bones, chicken bones, bone dry, bare bones, funny bone, feel it in my bones.

examples

• Your bones make up your skeleton. tree →
• The skull is made of bones that protect the brain. tree →
• Milk and cheese help keep your bones strong. tree →
• She broke two bones in her arm. tree →
• Our dog loves chewing bones. tree →
• Careful, there are small bones in the fish. tree →
• Dinosaur bones are in the museum. tree →
• Babies are born with more bones than adults. tree →
• Give me black bones to eat! tree →

note

Singular: bone (one bone). Say «bonz». Dogs should not be given cooked chicken bones — they can splinter. Your «funny bone» is really a nerve in your elbow, not a bone. In maths: «206 bones in an adult» is a common fact.

In the corpora

• Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs.
• Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.
• Smooth cartilage and a slippery fluid let the ends of bones glide in a joint.
• There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed.
• The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.

Trees and pragmatics

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