cough

«cough» in Mova's school dictionary: to push air out of your lungs suddenly with a loud noise… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (cough, coughs, coughed, coughing); noun (a cough, coughs)

meaning for a pupil

1) To cough is to push air out of your lungs suddenly with a loud noise, often because something is in your throat or you are ill. tree →

2) A cough is this action or sound. tree →

3) A cough is an illness that makes you cough a lot. tree →

4) A machine or engine coughs when it makes a rough sound. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and hygiene lessons, cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue or your elbow, throw the tissue away and wash your hands, so germs do not spread. A cough is the body clearing the airways. A cough that lasts weeks or comes with trouble breathing needs a doctor. Phrases: cough and sneeze, catch it in your elbow, a bad cough, cough medicine, cough up (pay or give, informal), whooping cough.

examples

• Cover your mouth when you cough. tree →
• I've had a cough all week. tree →
• The smoke made us cough. tree →
• The doctor gave me cough medicine. tree →
• He coughed politely to get our attention. tree →
• The old car coughed and stopped. tree →
• Come on, cough up the money you owe! tree →
• It was NOVEMBER, who coughed violently as he got out. tree →

note

Pronounced "koff" — the "-ough" spelling is tricky (compare tough, through, though, dough). If someone is choking and cannot cough or breathe, it is an emergency; get an adult immediately.

In the corpora

• Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny bones the owl coughed up, not poo.
• A cough that lasts for weeks or makes breathing hard needs a doctor, because it can be asthma or an infection.
• A child who is choking and cannot cough or cry needs a grown-up and the emergency number at once.
• If someone is choking and cannot talk or cough, get an adult at once, who can give firm back blows.
• Honey can soothe a sore throat and calm a cough a little, but it is never given to babies under 12 months.

Trees and pragmatics

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