coarse

«coarse» in Mova's school dictionary: Rough and thick to touch, not smooth or fine (coarse… — 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

adjective (coarse, coarser, coarsest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Rough and thick to touch, not smooth or fine (coarse sand, coarse cloth). tree →

2) Made of big pieces or grains, not fine ones (coarse salt, coarsely chopped). tree →

3) Rude, crude or vulgar in manners or language (coarse jokes). tree →

4) (fishing, UK) «Coarse fishing» is fishing for freshwater fish other than salmon and trout. tree →

5) A coarse voice is deep, harsh and rough-sounding, not soft or smooth. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and art lessons it describes textures: coarse sandpaper, coarse grains of sand or soil. In cooking, «coarse» salt or «coarsely chopped» onion means big pieces. In stories it describes rude, rough people or language. It tells the reader about roughness, either of a surface or of manners.

examples

• Coarse sandpaper takes off a lot of wood quickly. tree →
• The beach had coarse yellow sand. tree →
• The donkey's fur felt coarse. tree →
• Grind the pepper coarse, not fine. tree →
• The pirate told coarse jokes that made the sailors laugh. tree →
• We sieved the soil to separate coarse and fine bits. tree →
• Grandad goes coarse fishing for carp. tree →
• In a gruff, coarse voice she broke forth: tree →

note

Comparative coarser, superlative coarsest; adverb coarsely. Homophone trap: «course» (a race course, a course of lessons, «of course») sounds exactly the same as «coarse». Coarse = rough; course = path, lessons or certainly.

In the corpora

• Shaving does not change how thick, dark or fast hair grows; cut hair just has a blunt tip that feels coarser.

Trees and pragmatics

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