forehead
part of speech
noun (a forehead, foreheads)
meaning for a pupil
Your forehead is the part of your face above your eyes and below your hair. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health and everyday life: people feel a child's forehead to check for a fever (a hot forehead can mean a temperature); some thermometers are pointed at the forehead. Faces show feelings: a wrinkled forehead can show worry or thinking. In stories, «sweat on his forehead» shows heat, fear or hard work. Phrases: «touch your forehead», «a bump on the forehead», «wipe your forehead», «a kiss on the forehead».
examples
- Mum felt my forehead to see if I had a fever. tree →
- He got a bump on his forehead when he hit the door. tree →
- She wiped the sweat off her forehead. tree →
- Harry Potter has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. tree →
- Dad kissed me on the forehead. tree →
- The thermometer beeped when it touched my forehead. tree →
- He wrinkled his forehead as he thought about the problem. tree →
- The baby has curly hair over her forehead. tree →
- All had horns growing on their foreheads. tree →
note
Spelling: «fore» (front) + «head». Pronunciation: many people say «FOR-head», others «FOR-id»; both are fine. Countable: «a forehead», plural «foreheads».
In the corpora
- The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache.
- It quite makes my forehead ache!»
- A helmet should sit level and low on your forehead, about two fingers above your eyebrows.
- The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited.
- At half seven his little sister wrote «ONE MORE GAME» on a sticky note and stuck it on his forehead.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «forehead» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.