ember

«ember» in Mova's school dictionary: a small piece of wood or coal that is still glowing hot… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (ember, embers)

meaning for a pupil

An ember is a small piece of wood or coal that is still glowing hot after a fire has died down. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: embers can stay hot for hours and start new fires; pour water on a campfire and stir until cold. In science, embers glow because they are still burning slowly. In stories, glowing embers make a cosy or spooky scene. Phrases: «glowing embers», «the dying embers».

examples

• The embers of the campfire glowed orange. tree →
• Pour water on the embers before you leave. tree →
• Wind can blow embers far and start a bushfire. tree →
• We toasted marshmallows over the hot embers. tree →
• The last embers faded in the fireplace. tree →
• Never walk barefoot near embers. tree →
• From a neighbor's fire she brought hither a red, red ember. tree →

note

Countable; usually plural «embers». Safety: «put it out cold» — embers look dead but can still burn you. In Australia and the USA, wind-blown embers spread bushfires and wildfires. Not a number word.

In the corpora

• Hidden embers can stay hot for many hours and start a wildfire.

Trees and pragmatics

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