dark

«dark» in Mova's school dictionary: with little or no light, like at night — 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

adjective (dark, darker, darkest); noun (the dark)

meaning for a pupil

1) Dark means with little or no light, like at night. tree →

2) A dark colour is deep and close to black, like dark blue or dark green. tree →

3) Dark hair, eyes or skin are deep brown or black. tree →

4) The dark is the time or place with no light: «afraid of the dark». tree →

5) Dark can mean sad, scary or bad: «a dark story». tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: a word of the story or a colour used to sort things; hours of dark in a day. In science: light and dark; shadows; we need light to see; night happens when our side of the Earth faces away from the sun. In everyday life and safety: wear bright or reflective clothes when it is dark. Phrases: «in the dark» (not knowing), «afraid of the dark», «after dark», «pitch dark».

examples

• It gets dark at 6 o'clock. tree →
• There are 5 dark blue pens. tree →
• Dark chocolate costs more. tree →
• How many hours is it dark? tree →
• Many children are afraid of the dark. tree →
• In winter it is dark when we go home from school. tree →
• We need light to see, so in the dark we see nothing. tree →
• Wear something bright if you walk after dark. tree →

note

Opposite: «light» or «bright». «Darkness» is the noun. Maths: carries no clue to the operation; a colour sorts things into groups. Trap: hours of dark = 24 − hours of daylight.

In the corpora

• The film is pretend, but the feelings it makes are real, and they can stay with you after the screen goes dark.
• Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint, and adding black makes a darker shade.
• A black panther is a leopard or jaguar with extra dark pigment, and its spots can still be seen in bright light.
• Octopuses and squid squirt dark ink and jet away, and some squid make an ink blob shaped like themselves as a decoy.
• Blood is always red, bright red with oxygen and dark red without, even though veins look blue through your skin.

Trees and pragmatics

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