burp

«burp» in Mova's school dictionary: to let air come up from your stomach out through your… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (burp, burps, burped, burping); noun (a burp, burps)

meaning for a pupil

1) To burp means to let air come up from your stomach out through your mouth with a noise. tree →

2) A burp is that noise. tree →

3) To burp a baby means to pat its back to help it bring up air after feeding. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and manners lessons, children learn to cover their mouth and say excuse me after burping. In science, fizzy drinks cause burps because of the gas in them. Phrases: let out a burp, burp a baby, excuse me.

examples

• Fizzy drinks make me burp. tree →
• He let out a loud burp and said excuse me. tree →
• Dad burped the baby after her milk. tree →
• It's polite to cover your mouth if you burp. tree →
• The frog gave a funny burp. tree →
• Eating too fast can make you burp. tree →

note

Regular verb: burped. Also called belch (a stronger word) or, in the UK, a polite word is wind. Manners differ: in some cultures a burp after a meal can be polite, but in English-speaking countries say excuse me.

In the corpora

• Fizzy drinks are full of carbon dioxide gas, which collects in the stomach and comes back up as a burp.
• Your stomach is the same, so after a can of cola the gas comes back up as a burp.
• After a burp or passing wind by accident, you say "Excuse me" quietly.
• Fizz is gas, so gulping fizzy drinks fills the stomach with bubbles and can cause burping and a stitch.

Trees and pragmatics

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