cape

«cape» in Mova's school dictionary: a loose coat with no sleeves that hangs from the… — 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 cape, capes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cape is a loose coat with no sleeves that hangs from the shoulders, like a short cloak. tree →

2) A cape is a piece of land that sticks out into the sea. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and dressing up superheroes, wizards and kings wear capes. In geography a cape is a headland, like the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn; ships sailing round capes often met storms. In everyday life rain capes keep cyclists dry.

examples

• The superhero's red cape flapped in the wind. tree →
• We dressed up in capes and masks. tree →
• Ships had to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. tree →
• The lighthouse stands on the cape. tree →
• She wore a waterproof cape on her bike. tree →
• Cape Town is a city in South Africa. tree →
• I sat and slept at the helm of their ship, as they sailed away from North Cape. tree →

note

Countable: capes. In place names it has a capital letter (Cape Horn). A cloak is usually long; a cape is often shorter. Safety: real capes do not let you fly — never jump from high places.

In the corpora

• Bulls cannot see red well; a bull charges at the movement of the cape, and red is just the traditional colour.
• Theo plans team games with drawings: arrows, circles and a stick figure of himself with a cape.
• His team laughed at the cape and then won three matches in a row, because everyone knew where to go.
• Portuguese ships spent decades creeping down Africa's coast before Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.
• South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the highest courts.

Trees and pragmatics

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