drawer
part of speech
noun (drawer, drawers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A drawer is a box in a table, desk or cupboard that slides in and out, for keeping things. tree →
2) A drawer is also a person who draws pictures (rare). tree →
sense in the lessons
a container: things in each drawer; socks taken out of a drawer; in everyday life: a sock drawer, a kitchen drawer for spoons, a desk drawer for pencils; in safety: keep sharp knives and medicines in closed drawers away from small children; phrases: «top drawer» (the best), «chest of drawers»
examples
- Each drawer holds 8 shirts. tree →
- The desk has 3 drawers. tree →
- There are 10 socks in the drawer. tree →
- How many pencils are in 4 drawers? tree →
- The spoons are in the top drawer. tree →
- She keeps her socks in the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers. tree →
- Close the drawer so nobody trips. tree →
- He found an old letter at the back of the drawer. tree →
- It is quite like tidying up drawers. tree →
note
Equal groups. Trap in «socks from a drawer without looking»: think of the worst case. Pronounced like «draw», one syllable in UK speech. Plural: drawers. A «chest of drawers» is one piece of furniture.
In the corpora
- Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost black, even though nobody has used them.
- "Not the sharpest knife in the drawer" means not very clever; it is a humorous phrase.
- Pull drawers gently and only partly, because a heavy drawer can fall out and many open drawers can tip the chest.
- Many young children are poisoned each year by medicines found in bags, drawers and on tables.
- Tom found matches in a drawer and struck one to see the flame.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drawer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.