causeway

«causeway» in Mova's school dictionary: A raised road or path across wet ground, marshes or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a causeway, causeways)

meaning for a pupil

1) A raised road or path across wet ground, marshes or shallow water. tree →

2) The Giant's Causeway: a famous place in Northern Ireland with about 40,000 six-sided rock columns. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, some islands are joined to the mainland by a causeway that floods at high tide, like Holy Island (Lindisfarne) in England. In safety lessons, check the tide times before crossing a tidal causeway. In science, the Giant's Causeway was made by cooling lava.

examples

• We walked across the causeway to the island. tree →
• Check the tide times before driving over the causeway. tree →
• The causeway disappears under the sea at high tide. tree →
• The Giant's Causeway has hexagonal columns. tree →
• Legend says the giant Finn McCool built the causeway. tree →
• A long causeway crosses the marsh. tree →
• As for water, I am sinking a pump, and, plase goodness, as soon as the Causeway's made, I intend to finish it." tree →

note

Countable: a causeway, causeways. Not about «cause» (a reason); the word comes from an old word for a raised path. Safety: cars get stuck on tidal causeways every year when drivers ignore the tide.

In the corpora

• To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goeth up, ward against ward.
• For the Precinct westward, four at the causeway, and two at the Precinct.

Trees and pragmatics

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