casserole

«casserole» in Mova's school dictionary: a dish of meat, vegetables or beans cooked slowly in the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a casserole, casseroles); verb (casserole — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A casserole is a dish of meat, vegetables or beans cooked slowly in the oven in liquid. tree →

2) A casserole dish is the deep pot with a lid it is cooked in. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in cooking lessons, family dinners and community kindness (bringing a casserole to a neighbour who is ill or grieving); US «hotdish» in some areas.

examples

• Mum made a chicken casserole for tea. tree →
• Put the casserole in the oven for two hours. tree →
• The neighbours brought a casserole when Gran was ill. tree →
• Carry the casserole dish with oven gloves. tree →
• The bean casserole was warm and filling. tree →
• We need a bigger casserole dish. tree →

note

Countable. Safety: casserole dishes stay hot for a long time. In maths recipes: double the casserole = double every ingredient.

In the corpora

• It comes and goes like waves, and people show it in many ways, from tears to casseroles on the doorstep.

Trees and pragmatics

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