broom

«broom» in Mova's school dictionary: a brush with a long handle for sweeping floors — 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 broom, brooms); verb (broom — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A broom is a brush with a long handle for sweeping floors. tree →

2) Broom is also a wild bush with small yellow flowers. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life a broom is used to sweep the floor, the yard or leaves; children help with chores. In stories and at Halloween witches fly on broomsticks. In sport, curling players use brooms to sweep the ice. Phrase: «a new broom sweeps clean» means a new leader makes many changes.

examples

• Use the broom to sweep up the crumbs. tree →
• The witch flew across the moon on her broom. tree →
• Can you sweep the leaves with the big broom? tree →
• Yellow broom flowers grew on the hillside. tree →
• The broom and dustpan are in the cupboard. tree →
• Curling players sweep the ice with brooms. tree →
• Ya-hip! ya-hip!' And he flourished his broom in triumph." tree →

note

Countable: brooms. «Broomstick» is the handle of a broom, or the whole broom in witch stories. Not «bloom» (a flower), which sounds similar.

In the corpora

• A tall thing tips over slowly, so a broom is easier to balance on your palm than a pencil.
• Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of broom.
• They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

Trees and pragmatics

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