fathom

«fathom» in Mova's school dictionary: to understand it fully after thinking hard — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (fathom, fathoms, fathomed, fathoming); noun (fathom, fathoms; old use)

meaning for a pupil

1) To fathom something is to understand it fully after thinking hard. tree →

2) A fathom is an old unit of length for measuring depth at sea, equal to six feet. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, to work out a puzzle or mystery; at sea, a depth measured in fathoms (ten fathoms of chain)

examples

• I cannot fathom why the door was locked. tree →
• No one could fathom the old man's riddle. tree →
• He fathomed the trick at once. tree →
• The sailors let down a rope ten fathoms long. tree →
• Ten fathoms is about sixty feet. tree →

note

Each fathom is 6 feet, so multiply the number of fathoms by 6 to find feet; ten fathoms means 60 feet.

Trees and pragmatics

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