fresh

«fresh» in Mova's school dictionary: Of food: recently made, picked or caught, not old or… — 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

adjective (fresh, fresher, freshest); adverb (fresh from, freshly)

meaning for a pupil

1) Of food: recently made, picked or caught, not old or spoiled: fresh bread, fresh fruit. tree →

2) New or different: a fresh page, a fresh start. tree →

3) Of air or water: clean and cool; fresh water is not salty. tree →

4) Clean and not used: fresh towels, fresh clothes. tree →

5) Feeling rested and full of energy. tree →

6) Of weather: cool and a bit windy. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health: fresh fruit and vegetables are good for you; check food is fresh, not mouldy, and look at the use-by label. In science: fresh water (rivers, lakes) versus salt water (sea); most of Earth's water is salty. In everyday life: open the window for fresh air; start fresh. Phrases: fresh air, fresh water, freshwater fish, a fresh start, fresh from the oven, freshly made, keep fresh.

examples

• The bread is fresh from the oven. tree →
• Let's go outside for some fresh air. tree →
• Rivers and lakes are fresh water. tree →
• Keep the milk in the fridge so it stays fresh. tree →
• Turn to a fresh page in your book. tree →
• After a good sleep I feel fresh. tree →
• We bought fresh strawberries at the market. tree →
• Put on fresh socks after PE. tree →
• Tomorrow is a fresh start. tree →
• Fresh roses were scattered over her. tree →

note

Comparisons: fresher, freshest. Opposites: stale (bread), off or rotten (food), salt (water), tired (people). «Freshwater» is one word as an adjective (freshwater fish). Fresh does not mean cold, though fresh air often feels cool.

In the corpora

• Nobody typed the chatbot's answers in one by one; each answer is produced fresh when you ask.
• The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.
• A chimpanzee bends branches into a fresh bed every single night, a bit like making your bed but starting with a tree.
• Fresh cocoa beans taste bitter and smell of chocolate only after fermenting, drying and roasting.
• Fresh sweat hardly smells; it is the tiny bacteria that eat it that make the pong.

Trees and pragmatics

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