calf

«calf» in Mova's school dictionary: a young cow or bull — 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 (a calf, calves)

meaning for a pupil

1) A calf is a young cow or bull. tree →

2) A calf is the young of some other large animals, like elephants, whales, giraffes and deer. tree →

3) Your calf is the back part of your leg between the knee and the ankle. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science life-cycle lessons, a calf is a baby mammal that drinks its mother's milk. On farms, calves are born in spring. In health and PE, calf muscles help you walk, run and jump; stretch them before exercise. Phrases: calf muscle, calf stretch, cow and calf, an elephant calf.

examples

• The cow licked her new calf. tree →
• A baby elephant is called a calf. tree →
• The whale and her calf swam together. tree →
• I pulled a muscle in my calf. tree →
• Stretch your calves before running. tree →
• The farm has twenty calves. tree →
• I had another calf killed; this one was led away. tree →

note

Plural calves (f changes to ves), like half/halves. The l is silent: say "kaaf". Calf (leg) and calf (baby animal) are different meanings of the same word.

In the corpora

• A newborn calf stands within about an hour so that it can drink milk and keep up with the herd.
• Musk oxen form a ring facing outwards, with calves in the middle, so wolves meet only a wall of horns.
• When wolves come, musk oxen stand in a ring with the calves in the middle and their horns pointing out.
• A cow gives milk because, like every mammal mother, she makes it for her calf.
• Moose in Alaska and Canada are huge and can charge and kick, so they can be dangerous, especially mothers with calves.

Trees and pragmatics

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