breeze

«breeze» in Mova's school dictionary: a light, gentle wind — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a breeze, breezes); verb (breeze in/through — informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) A breeze is a light, gentle wind. tree →

2) A breeze is something very easy to do: «The test was a breeze». tree →

3) To breeze in or breeze through is to come in or get through something easily and cheerfully. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography a breeze is a soft movement of air; sea breezes blow from the sea onto land on sunny days. In everyday life a breeze cools you on a hot day, dries washing and helps fly kites. In stories leaves rustle in the breeze. Phrase: «shoot the breeze» means chat (American).

examples

• A cool breeze came off the sea. tree →
• The washing dried quickly in the breeze. tree →
• The flags fluttered in the breeze. tree →
• That puzzle was a breeze! tree →
• She breezed into the room, smiling. tree →
• There wasn't enough breeze to fly the kite. tree →
• A breeze sprang up from the east. tree →

note

Countable: a breeze, breezes. Adjective: breezy. Wind words from weak to strong: breeze, wind, gale, storm, hurricane. Not «breeze» for a strong wind.

In the corpora

• A sea breeze blows from the sea onto the land on sunny days; a land breeze blows out to sea at night.

Trees and pragmatics

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