coop

«coop» in Mova's school dictionary: a cage or small house where chickens or other birds are kept — 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 coop, coops); verb (coop up, coops, cooped, cooping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A coop is a cage or small house where chickens or other birds are kept. tree →

2) To be cooped up means to be kept inside a small space for a long time. tree →

3) A co-op (also written coop) is a shop or business owned and run by its members. tree →

sense in the lessons

On farms and in back gardens, hens sleep in a chicken coop and lay eggs there; it must be shut at night against foxes. In everyday life children feel cooped up inside on a rainy day. Phrases: chicken coop, hen coop, cooped up, fly the coop (escape, leave).

examples

• We let the hens out of the coop every morning. tree →
• Dad built a coop for our chickens. tree →
• Close the coop at night so the fox can't get in. tree →
• We have been cooped up all day because of the rain. tree →
• The parrot flew the coop when the door was left open. tree →
• The eggs were still warm in the coop. tree →

note

Countable: a coop, coops. Pronounced KOOP, like «hoop». «Co-op» (KOH-op), short for cooperative, is a different word and is often written with a hyphen. «Fly the coop» = escape or leave home.

In the corpora

• Foxes hunt chickens because they are hungry; a stronger coop protects the hens better than anger.

Trees and pragmatics

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