bough

«bough» in Mova's school dictionary: a large, main branch of a tree — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bough, boughs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bough is a large, main branch of a tree. tree →

2) It is a slightly old-fashioned or poetic word; in everyday talk people usually say «branch». tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, poems, songs and nursery rhymes, boughs appear often, as in «Rock-a-bye Baby» where «the bough breaks». In science lessons, boughs are the big branches growing out of the trunk. Phrases: «the bough breaks», «boughs of holly», «under the boughs».

examples

• The children sat in the shade under the boughs of the oak. tree →
• When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. tree →
• Snow weighed down the boughs of the pine trees. tree →
• «Deck the halls with boughs of holly» is a Christmas carol. tree →
• A heavy bough fell in the storm and blocked the lane. tree →
• Birds built a nest on the highest bough. tree →
• Rotten twigs and dry boughs are they all.” tree →

note

Countable noun: a bough, boughs. Pronounced «BOW» to rhyme with «cow» and «now». Homophone trap: «bow» (bend at the waist) sounds the same, but «bow» (for arrows, or a ribbon) rhymes with «go». Do not confuse with «bought» or «cough», which have the same letters «ough» but different sounds.

In the corpora

• A bough is a big branch of a tree.
• The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.
• Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

Trees and pragmatics

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