bracelet

«bracelet» in Mova's school dictionary: a band or chain worn around the wrist as jewellery or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bracelet, bracelets)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bracelet is a band or chain worn around the wrist as jewellery or decoration. tree →

2) A bracelet can also be a band worn for a purpose, such as a medical alert bracelet or a hospital wristband. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children make friendship bracelets from thread or beads and swap them. Some people wear medical bracelets that tell others about an allergy or illness — a safety point. In maths and art, bead bracelets are used for repeating patterns.

examples

• She gave me a friendship bracelet. tree →
• My bracelet has red, blue, red, blue beads: it's a pattern. tree →
• Grandma wears a silver bracelet. tree →
• He wears a medical bracelet because of his nut allergy. tree →
• We made bracelets out of loom bands. tree →
• The bracelet slipped off her wrist. tree →
• She wore a silk dress, golden bracelets, and large amber beads. tree →

note

Countable. Spelled «brace-let». A bracelet goes on the wrist; a necklace on the neck; an anklet on the ankle. «Bangle» is a stiff bracelet.

In the corpora

• In Melbourne, Tasha can't afford a birthday present and makes a friendship bracelet; the birthday girl wears it all day.
• And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.
• the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils;
• I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

Trees and pragmatics

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