brown
part of speech
adjective (brown, browner, brownest); noun (brown); verb (brown, browns, browned, browning)
meaning for a pupil
1) Brown is the colour of chocolate, wood or soil. tree →
2) To brown food is to cook it until its outside turns brown, like toast or onions. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: a colour that sorts things into groups to count or compare; parts add up to the whole. In art: mix red, yellow and blue (or orange and blue) to make brown. In science: leaves turn brown in autumn; brown bears. In cooking: brown bread, brown sugar, brown the meat. Phrases: dark brown, light brown, brown bread, brown paper, brown eyes.
examples
- There are 12 brown and 7 white eggs. tree →
- She has 4 brown dogs and 2 black dogs. tree →
- How many of the 30 bears are brown? tree →
- 9 brown cows are in the barn. tree →
- The leaves turn brown and fall in autumn. tree →
- He has brown hair and brown eyes. tree →
- Wrap the parcel in brown paper. tree →
- Brown the onions in a pan before adding the soup. tree →
- What beautiful brown spots on your face! tree →
note
Colour words are adjectives and nouns. A colour that makes groups; parts add up to the whole. No clue by itself. Myth: brown eggs and white eggs are the same inside; the shell colour depends on the hen.
In the corpora
- Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light.
- Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter.
- Black and brown bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter and are only about the size of a guinea pig.
- Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.
- The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «brown» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.