eel

«eel» in Mova's school dictionary: a long, thin fish that looks like a snake and has… — 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

noun (an eel, eels)

meaning for a pupil

An eel is a long, thin fish that looks like a snake and has slippery skin. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on rivers and the sea, eels are fish with fins and gills, and some travel huge distances to breed; the electric eel can give an electric shock. «Slippery as an eel» describes someone hard to catch or pin down.

examples

• An eel slid out from under the rock. tree →
• Eels look like snakes, but they are fish. tree →
• The electric eel can give a strong shock. tree →
• The fisherman caught an eel in the river. tree →
• The puppy was as slippery as an eel in the bath. tree →
• Some eels swim across the ocean to lay their eggs. tree →
• Moray eels hide in holes in the reef. tree →

note

Countable: an eel, two eels. Starts with a vowel sound, so «an eel». Trap: eels are fish, not snakes or worms. The electric eel is not actually a true eel but a kind of knifefish.

In the corpora

• Anglerfish and gulper eels can swallow prey as big as themselves or bigger, because their mouths open very wide and their stomachs stretch.
• While the Rat and the Otter argue about eels by the fire, the Badger takes the Mole on a tour with a lantern.
• Ils ont (they have) sounds "eel-ZON"; ils sont (they are) sounds "eel SON".
• Many French endings are written but not said: "ils parlent" (they speak) sounds like "eel parl".
• Electric eels are not true eels but a kind of knifefish.

Trees and pragmatics

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