crow

«crow» in Mova's school dictionary: a large black bird with a loud harsh call — 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 (a crow, crows); verb (crow, crows, crowed (or crew, old), crowing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A crow is a large black bird with a loud harsh call. tree →

2) To crow (of a rooster) is to make its loud morning cry. tree →

3) To crow is to boast happily about winning. tree →

4) «As the crow flies» means in a straight line. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature and science (crows are clever birds), fables (The Crow and the Pitcher), farm stories, maths distance («as the crow flies»).

examples

• A crow sat on the fence cawing. tree →
• The rooster crowed at dawn. tree →
• Stop crowing about your score. tree →
• Crows can use sticks as tools. tree →
• The town is ten miles away as the crow flies. tree →
• In the fable, the crow dropped stones into the jug. tree →
• Just then a Crow flew by. tree →

note

Crow's feet = small lines near the eyes. «Crow over» = boast. In maths, «as the crow flies» is the straight-line distance, shorter than by road.

In the corpora

• Crows in Japan drop walnuts at traffic lights for cars to crack, and crows can remember a human face for years.
• Foxes are clever, but crows, ravens and parrots solve puzzles that need several steps; cartoon personalities are made up.
• Owls are expert hunters with superb hearing, but crows and parrots solve much harder puzzles than owls.
• Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic.
• Owls are skilled hunters but not especially good at puzzles; crows and parrots do much better.

Trees and pragmatics

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