currant

«currant» in Mova's school dictionary: A small dried black grape without seeds, used in cakes… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a currant, currants)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small dried black grape without seeds, used in cakes, buns and puddings. tree →

2) A small round berry that grows in bunches on a bush: blackcurrant, redcurrant, whitecurrant. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking, currants go in currant buns, Eccles cakes, spotted dick and Christmas pudding. In the nursery rhyme «Five currant buns in a baker's shop», and in maths problems with buns, currants can be counted. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice finds a little cake marked EAT ME «in currants». Blackcurrant juice is popular in the UK.

examples

• Five currant buns in a baker's shop, round and fat with a sugar on the top. tree →
• The cake had «EAT ME» written on it in currants. tree →
• We picked redcurrants in the garden. tree →
• Blackcurrants are full of vitamin C. tree →
• Put a handful of currants into the scone mixture. tree →
• Each bun has 8 currants; how many currants are in 5 buns? tree →
• She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns. tree →

note

Homophone trap: currant (fruit) and current (flow of water or electricity; or «now»). Currant has -ant like «ant in the cake».

Trees and pragmatics

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