bud
part of speech
noun (a bud, buds); verb (bud, buds, budded, budding)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bud is a small swelling on a plant that will open into a leaf or a flower. tree →
2) To bud means to grow buds: the trees are budding. tree →
3) «Bud» (informal, mostly American) is a friendly word for a friend or a boy. tree →
4) A budding artist is one who is just starting and may become good. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, buds appear in spring; a flower bud opens into a flower, which can make seeds; some tiny living things like yeast reproduce by budding. Taste buds are tiny parts of your tongue that sense flavours (sweet, sour, salty, bitter). Phrases: taste buds, nip it in the bud (stop a problem early), in bud, earbuds.
examples
- The rose has three buds. tree →
- In spring, buds appear on the trees. tree →
- The bud opened into a flower. tree →
- My taste buds love sour sweets. tree →
- Thanks, bud! tree →
- She is a budding scientist. tree →
- Nip bad habits in the bud. tree →
- Put in your earbuds to listen to music. tree →
- It is a simple daisy, just bursting out of the bud. tree →
note
Countable. Short for «buddy» when it means a friend (informal). Do not confuse with bug or butt. «Taste buds» are always plural in everyday use.
In the corpora
- Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud.
- Not everything under the ground is a root, though: a potato is a swollen stem, and its eyes are buds.
- A potato is a swollen underground stem called a tuber, and its eyes are buds; a sweet potato really is a root.
- A cut horse chestnut twig kept in water indoors opens its buds early.
- Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes on a potato are buds that can grow into new plants.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bud» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.