bong

«bong» in Mova's school dictionary: A deep ringing sound, like a big bell or clock — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bong, bongs); verb (bong, bongs, bonged)

meaning for a pupil

1) A deep ringing sound, like a big bell or clock. tree →

2) (verb) To make that sound. tree →

3) (slang) A water pipe used to smoke drugs such as cannabis. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories: the bongs of Big Ben at midnight; the clock went bong. In safety and health lessons the slang sense may come up as drug equipment, which is dangerous and illegal for children. Phrases: the bongs of Big Ben.

examples

• The clock went bong twelve times. tree →
• We heard the bongs of Big Ben on the radio. tree →
• The doorbell bonged loudly. tree →
• The big bell bonged across the town. tree →
• Count the bongs to know the hour. tree →
• The police found a bong, a pipe for smoking drugs. (slang) tree →

note

As a sound word it is imitative, like ding, dong, ring. The drug sense is slang; drugs harm health and are against the law. In maths problems: a clock that bongs once per hour bongs 3 times at 3 o'clock.

In the corpora

• Picture the church clock striking 6: bong, gap, bong, gap...
• There are 6 bongs but only 5 gaps, and the gaps are what take the time.

Trees and pragmatics

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