butter

«butter» in Mova's school dictionary: a soft, yellow food made from cream, which people spread… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (butter, uncountable); verb (butter, butters, buttered, buttering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Butter is a soft, yellow food made from cream, which people spread on bread or use in cooking. tree →

2) To butter something means to spread butter on it. tree →

3) Peanut butter and other «butters» are smooth spreads made from crushed nuts or seeds. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons butter is used in cakes, biscuits and sauces; it melts when warm and goes hard in the fridge, which is a good example of melting and solidifying in science. Butter is made by churning (shaking or stirring) cream until the fat sticks together. In health lessons butter is a fat, so it is eaten in small amounts. Phrases: bread and butter, peanut butter, butter up (to flatter), butterfingers (someone who drops things).

examples

• Spread some butter on your toast. tree →
• Mum buttered the bread for our sandwiches. tree →
• Butter melts in a hot pan. tree →
• We made butter at school by shaking cream in a jar. tree →
• Keep the butter in the fridge so it stays fresh. tree →
• I'm allergic to peanuts, so I can't eat peanut butter. tree →
• You need butter, sugar, flour and eggs to make a cake. tree →
• Oops, butterfingers! You dropped the ball again. tree →
• “Curly is taking both butter and honey.” tree →

note

Uncountable: some butter, a piece of butter (not «a butter»). Butter is made from milk, so people with a milk allergy cannot eat it. Do not use butter on burns; that is a myth — cool a burn with cool running water instead.

In the corpora

• Mice prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods to cheese, so peanut butter works better in humane traps.
• Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods, so people baiting traps usually use peanut butter.
• The March Hare dips it in his tea and gloomily repeats that it was the best butter.
• The first witness is the Hatter, still holding his teacup and bread-and-butter.
• The front-door bell clangs, and in bursts the Otter, hugging the Rat so hard he splutters through his buttered toast.

Trees and pragmatics

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