brow

«brow» in Mova's school dictionary: your forehead, the part of your face above your eyes — 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 brow, brows)

meaning for a pupil

1) Your brow is your forehead, the part of your face above your eyes. tree →

2) A brow is an eyebrow: «She raised her brows». tree →

3) The brow of a hill is the top of it, where it starts to slope down. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories «he wiped his brow» shows a character is hot or worried; «a furrowed brow» means wrinkles from thinking or worry. In safety, drivers are told not to overtake on the brow of a hill because they cannot see what is coming. Phrases: wipe your brow, knit your brows, furrowed brow, highbrow and lowbrow.

examples

• He wiped the sweat from his brow. tree →
• She frowned and her brow wrinkled. tree →
• The car slowed down at the brow of the hill. tree →
• Grandad raised his brows in surprise. tree →
• With a furrowed brow, Tom stared at the maths problem. tree →
• We could see the sea from the brow of the hill. tree →
• Perspiration hung like beads on his brow. tree →

note

Rhymes with «cow», not «grow». Plural «brows». «Eyebrow» is the more usual everyday word for the hair above the eye.

In the corpora

• Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Trees and pragmatics

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