dew
part of speech
noun (dew — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
Dew is the tiny drops of water that form on grass, leaves and other cool surfaces outside, usually at night or early morning. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons dew is an example of condensation: at night the ground cools, and water vapour in the air turns into liquid drops. In everyday life you see dew on the grass in the morning and your shoes get wet. In poems and stories dew makes mornings look fresh and sparkling. Phrases: «morning dew», «wet with dew», «dewdrop», «dew point».
examples
- The grass was wet with morning dew. tree →
- Dewdrops sparkled on the spider's web. tree →
- Dew forms when the air cools at night. tree →
- My trainers got soaked in the dew. tree →
- By noon the sun had dried the dew. tree →
- The tent was covered in dew this morning. tree →
- Snails come out when there is dew on the ground. tree →
- We saw dew on the car windows. tree →
- A drop of dew fell from the leaves upon the singer's grave. tree →
note
Uncountable: «dew», not «dews»; one drop is «a dewdrop». Homophones: dew, due (owed, expected), do (in some accents). Dew does not fall from the sky like rain; it forms right where you see it. When it is cold enough, dew becomes frost.
In the corpora
- Dew collects on the cool threads at night and shows how many webs there are, often thousands in a garden in autumn.
- Dew forms when water vapour in the air condenses on cool grass at night.
- Dew is water vapour that condenses on cold surfaces; frost forms when the surface is below freezing.
- It doesn't run backwards, because wet grass can also come from a sprinkler, dew or a dog.
- And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. —
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dew» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.