collarbone

«collarbone» in Mova's school dictionary: one of two long thin bones at the front of your body… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a collarbone, collarbones)

meaning for a pupil

The collarbone is one of two long thin bones at the front of your body, running from the top of your chest to each shoulder. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the skeleton, the collarbone (clavicle) joins the arm to the body. In sport and safety, a fall from a bike or horse onto the shoulder can break a collarbone, a common children's injury. Phrases: break your collarbone, a broken collarbone.

examples

• You can feel your collarbone just below your neck. tree →
• He broke his collarbone when he fell off his bike. tree →
• The doctor put her arm in a sling for her collarbone. tree →
• Each person has two collarbones. tree →
• The scientific name for the collarbone is the clavicle. tree →
• The necklace rested on her collarbone. tree →

note

Countable: a collarbone, collarbones. Usually one word, sometimes «collar bone». It is called this because it lies where a shirt collar sits.

In the corpora

• The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew.
• Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.
• A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together.
• The collarbone often breaks from a fall on the shoulder, and most broken collarbones are treated with a sling, not a cast.

Trees and pragmatics

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