eyebrow

«eyebrow» in Mova's school dictionary: the two lines of short hair above your eyes — 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 (eyebrow, eyebrows)

meaning for a pupil

1) Your eyebrows are the two lines of short hair above your eyes. tree →

2) «Raise an eyebrow» means to show surprise or doubt, by moving your eyebrows up. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science (the body), eyebrows help keep sweat and rain from running into your eyes. In stories and drama, eyebrows show feelings: raised eyebrows (surprise), frowning (crossed or angry), knitted eyebrows (worried or thinking hard). In art lessons, drawing eyebrows changes a face's expression. Phrases: raise an eyebrow, raised eyebrows, bushy eyebrows, frown.

examples

• Grandpa has thick, bushy eyebrows. tree →
• She raised her eyebrows in surprise. tree →
• Eyebrows stop sweat from running into your eyes. tree →
• Draw the eyebrows angled down to make the face look cross. tree →
• His eyebrows knitted together as he thought about the puzzle. tree →
• The news raised a few eyebrows. tree →

note

Countable: one eyebrow, two eyebrows. Compound word: eye + brow («brow» also means forehead). Eyebrows are different from «eyelashes», the hairs on the edges of your eyelids.

In the corpora

• Dogs have a special eyebrow muscle, which wolves mostly lack, that lifts the inner eyebrow to make puppy eyes.
• A helmet should sit level and low on your forehead, about two fingers above your eyebrows.
• A helmet fits snug and level, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.
• His teacher smoothed it out — the juice was only on the empty half — and raised one eyebrow.
• In sign languages, facial expressions are part of the grammar: raised eyebrows can turn a sentence into a yes/no question.

Trees and pragmatics

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