bray

«bray» in Mova's school dictionary: To make the loud, harsh noise of a donkey (hee-haw) — 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

verb (bray, brays, brayed, braying); noun (a bray, brays)

meaning for a pupil

1) To make the loud, harsh noise of a donkey (hee-haw). tree →

2) (of people) To laugh or talk loudly and unpleasantly. tree →

3) (noun) The sound a donkey makes. tree →

4) To cry out in a loud, harsh voice, especially in pain. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and farm topics, donkeys bray. In descriptions, a braying laugh is loud and annoying. In nativity and Bible stories, a donkey may bray in the stable. Phrases: donkey's bray, braying laugh.

examples

• The donkey brayed loudly at the gate. tree →
• We heard a loud bray from the field. tree →
• The man's braying laugh filled the café. tree →
• Hee-haw is how we write a donkey's bray. tree →
• The donkey brayed when it wanted its dinner. tree →
• A trumpet in the band brayed out of tune. tree →
• Pinocchio screamed with pain and as he screamed he brayed: tree →

note

Regular verb: brayed. Bray is also a seaside town in Ireland (a name).

In the corpora

• Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.
• Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
• Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
• Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

Trees and pragmatics

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