carrot

«carrot» in Mova's school dictionary: a long orange vegetable; it is the root of a plant that… — 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 (carrot, carrots)

meaning for a pupil

1) A carrot is a long orange vegetable; it is the root of a plant that grows under the ground. tree →

2) A carrot is a reward used to make someone do something: «the carrot and the stick». tree →

sense in the lessons

food counted; rows in a garden, or fed to animals; in science, a root we eat; phrases «carrot cake», «carrot sticks», «carrot and stick»

examples

• The rabbit eats 3 carrots a day. tree →
• She planted 5 rows of 10 carrots. tree →
• A bag has 12 carrots. tree →
• He sold carrots for 1 dollar each. tree →
• We pulled carrots from the garden. tree →
• Carrot sticks make a healthy snack. tree →
• The snowman has a carrot for a nose. tree →
• Grandma bakes carrot cake. tree →
• Carrots grow under the soil. tree →
• The extra playtime was a carrot to finish work. tree →
• The gardener was near the gate, watering the dill and parsley, the carrots and parsnips. tree →

note

Just a thing counted. Trap: «a day» makes it a rate. Do not confuse «carrot» with «carat» (weight of jewels) or «caret» (the ^ mark). Carrots alone do not give you night vision — a myth.

In the corpora

• Wild rabbits mostly eat grass, clover and leafy plants; carrots are sugary and should be only a small treat for pet rabbits.
• Bugs Bunny munches a carrot in every cartoon, so many people think carrots are what rabbits should eat.
• Real rabbits are built for grass and hay, and carrots are only a small sweet treat.
• In cartoons potatoes grow on trees and carrots wink from bushes.
• Carrots are orange because of beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for the eyes.

Trees and pragmatics

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