dog
part of speech
noun (dog, dogs); verb (dog, dogs, dogged — to follow closely or to trouble)
meaning for a pupil
1) A dog is an animal kept as a pet or for work that barks and wags its tail. A dog has 4 legs. tree →
2) Wild dogs include wolves, foxes and dingoes. tree →
3) To dog someone is to follow them closely, or to keep troubling them: «dogged by bad luck». tree →
4) (casual) Slang words for a dog: «doggo», «pupper», «pooch», «mutt» (a dog of mixed kind); «dawg» (US slang) means a friend. tree →
5) (casual) «Dog-tired» means very tired; «it's a dog's life» means a hard life; «the dog's dinner» (UK) means a mess. tree →
6) (rude) Calling a person a «dog» is a nasty insult; «dog» can mean something bad: «this phone's a dog». tree →
7) (euphemism) «We had to put the dog down» or «the dog went to sleep» means it was killed kindly because it was very old or ill. tree →
8) (formal) Exams and science say «canine», «domestic dog», «Canis familiaris» and «the quadruped». tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: animals counted, with legs (4 each), food, walks and costs (food = dogs × rate × days); science: mammals, puppies, a dog's strong sense of smell; everyday life: walking and feeding the dog, guide dogs, sheepdogs; safety: ask the owner before you pet a dog; stories: loyal dogs; in casual talk «doggo», «pooch», «can i pet him??», «dog-tired»; in rough talk «keep your mutt off my lawn», «that phone's a dog»; euphemism «put down»; in the exam voice «each canine consumes», «the aggregate number of limbs»
examples
- Sam has 3 dogs. tree →
- Each dog eats 2 cups of food a day. tree →
- How many legs do 4 dogs have? tree →
- She walks the dog for 30 minutes. tree →
- The dog wagged its tail. tree →
- Always ask before you pet a dog. tree →
- A guide dog helps a blind person. tree →
- The puppy will grow into a big dog. tree →
- can i pet him?? he's growling (No, leave him and walk away slowly.) tree →
- Keep your mutt off my lawn, it's dug 3 holes! tree →
- Our old dog was very ill, so the vet put him down. tree →
- Each canine consumes 2 cups of food per day. Compute the aggregate consumption of 3 canines over a period of 5 days. tree →
- Did he indeed? a greedy dog. tree →
note
Thing counted, often with a rate per dog. Trap: legs: 4 per dog. «canine» in an exam means dog. A baby dog is a puppy. «put down» said about a pet means it was killed kindly by a vet. Safety: never pet a growling dog or a dog you do not know; walk away slowly, do not run.
In the corpora
- Every street has its news: who parked where, whose dog barked, who has a new car.
- On matters of taste, like cats versus dogs, there is no single right answer, so bots usually avoid taking sides.
- Elephants have a superb sense of smell and more smell genes than dogs, and lift the trunk to catch scents on the wind.
- Most bears are omnivores, and their sense of smell is many times better than a dog's.
- A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell receptors, while a human nose has about 5 or 6 million.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dog» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.