fig
part of speech
noun (fig, figs); abbreviation (fig. = figure)
meaning for a pupil
1) A soft, sweet fruit with many tiny seeds inside, shaped like a small pear. tree →
2) The tree that this fruit grows on. tree →
3) (Bible) The fig tree appears in many Bible stories; Adam and Eve made clothes from fig leaves. tree →
4) (abbreviation) «Fig.» is short for «figure», a numbered picture or diagram in a book. tree →
5) (informal, old-fashioned) Something worth nothing: «I don't give a fig». tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and textbooks «Fig. 3» means look at picture number 3. In cooking and nature lessons it is a fruit, fresh or dried. In Bible stories Jesus told a parable about a fig tree. Phrases: fig tree, fig leaf, dried figs, see Fig. 2, not care a fig.
examples
- We ate fresh figs on holiday in Greece. tree →
- The fig tree in the garden gives lots of fruit. tree →
- Look at Fig. 4 to see the parts of a flower. tree →
- In the Bible, Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leaves. tree →
- Dried figs are sweet and chewy. tree →
- He doesn't care a fig about football. tree →
- And here are sweet sauce, honey, raisins, green peas, and dry figs. tree →
note
Plural: figs. «Fig.» with a full stop is an abbreviation of «figure» and is read aloud as «figure». A «fig leaf» can also mean something used to hide an embarrassing fact.
In the corpora
- a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
- And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us.
- He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.
- Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
- The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom give forth their fragrance.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fig» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.