crayon

«crayon» in Mova's school dictionary: a stick of coloured wax for drawing and colouring — 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

noun (crayon, crayons); verb (crayon, crayoned)

meaning for a pupil

1) A crayon is a stick of coloured wax for drawing and colouring. tree →

2) To crayon is to draw or colour with crayons. tree →

sense in the lessons

a thing counted, often in boxes, lost or given away; «boxes of 8» means multiply; in art class children draw with crayons; phrases: «a box of crayons», «wax crayon», «colour with crayons»

examples

• Paul had 110 crayons. tree →
• He gave 90 crayons to his friends. tree →
• He lost 12 crayons. tree →
• Each box has 8 crayons. tree →
• I coloured the sun with a yellow crayon. tree →
• Crayons melt if you leave them in the sun. tree →
• Share the crayons with your table. tree →
• My little sister drew on the wall with a crayon. tree →

note

Countable: a crayon, crayons. A thing counted. «lost», «gave away» take away; «boxes of 8» means multiply. Trap: «how many more crayons did he lose than give away» compares the two changes.

In the corpora

• A girl who wouldn't share her crayons felt mean when her neighbour's grey picture went up on the wall.
• une trousse ("TROOSS") is a pencil case; inside you might find a taille-crayon (a sharpener).
• He has 5 boxes of 8 crayons and gives away 12 crayons.
• How many crayons are left?» His age does not matter.
• Step one: 5 × 8 = 40 crayons.

Trees and pragmatics

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