dedicate

«dedicate» in Mova's school dictionary: to give it to a person or purpose, often out of love or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (dedicate, dedicates, dedicated, dedicating)

meaning for a pupil

1) To dedicate something is to give it to a person or purpose, often out of love or respect. tree →

2) (old use) To dedicate a book is to write someone's name at the front to honour them. tree →

3) To dedicate yourself is to promise to give your time and effort to something. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old books and tales a writer dedicates a book or poem to a friend or hero; in everyday talk, a person dedicates their life to a cause

examples

• She dedicated her picture to her grandmother. tree →
• The author dedicated the book to her teacher. tree →
• He dedicated his whole summer to learning the piano. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
• Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of the LORD.
• So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

Trees and pragmatics

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