flesh
part of speech
noun (flesh — uncountable); verb (flesh out, fleshes out, fleshed out)
meaning for a pupil
1) Flesh is the soft part of the body of a person or animal, between the skin and bones, mostly muscle and fat. tree →
2) Flesh is the soft part of a fruit or vegetable that you can eat. tree →
3) (Bible, church) «The flesh» means the human body and its desires, as opposed to the spirit; «the Word became flesh» means Christians believe God became a human in Jesus. tree →
4) To flesh out an idea or a story means to add more details. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, flesh-eating animals are carnivores. In writing lessons, teachers ask pupils to «flesh out» characters. Phrases: «in the flesh» (in person, for real), «flesh and blood» (your own family; a real human).
examples
- The peach had sweet orange flesh. tree →
- Lions eat the flesh of other animals. tree →
- I met my favourite author in the flesh! tree →
- Flesh out your story with more details. tree →
- He's my own flesh and blood. tree →
- Christians believe the Word became flesh at Christmas. tree →
- I have even got flesh and clothes. tree →
note
Uncountable. Adjective: fleshy. «Flesh-coloured» is an old phrase that wrongly assumes one skin colour — say «skin-coloured» or name the shade.
In the corpora
- Cut an apple for your lunchbox and by break time the white flesh has gone brown.
- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
- And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
- And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
- Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «flesh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.