brook
part of speech
noun (a brook, brooks); verb (brook, brooks, brooked, brooking — formal)
meaning for a pupil
1) A small stream of fresh water. tree →
2) (formal, verb) To allow or put up with something, usually in the negative: «She would brook no argument» means she would not allow any argument. tree →
sense in the lessons
In nature lessons and stories a brook is a little stream running through fields and woods, smaller than a river. Poems often describe it «babbling». The verb sense is formal and found in older books: «brook no delay», «brook no interference». In The Wind in the Willows small brooks run down to the river.
examples
- We jumped across the little brook in the meadow. tree →
- The brook babbled over the stones. tree →
- Minnows swam in the clear brook. tree →
- Cows drank from the brook at the bottom of the field. tree →
- The water from the brook flows into the river. tree →
- The teacher would brook no talking during the test. tree →
- Grandad would brook no nonsense at the dinner table. tree →
- A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook. tree →
note
Size order: brook / stream / creek (US, Australia) are small; river is big. The verb is formal and almost always used with «no» or «not». Brook is also a surname and a girl's name (often spelt Brooke).
In the corpora
- and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Sea.
- Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.' And we went over the brook Zered.
- From thence they journeyed unto Gudgod; and from Gudgod to Jotbah, a land of brooks of water. —
- From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.
- The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «brook» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.