fringe

«fringe» in Mova's school dictionary: hair cut short and straight across the forehead… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fringe, fringes); adjective (fringe, as in fringe ideas)

meaning for a pupil

1) A fringe is hair cut short and straight across the forehead; Americans call it bangs. tree →

2) A fringe is a border of loose threads on the edge of cloth, like on a scarf or rug. tree →

3) The fringe or fringes of a place or group is its outer edge. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children get a fringe cut at the hairdresser's; scarves and cowboy jackets have fringes. In stories the fringe of a forest or town is its edge. Phrases: «cut a fringe», «on the fringe of», «fringe benefits», «a fringe festival».

examples

• My fringe is getting into my eyes. tree →
• Mum trimmed my fringe. tree →
• The scarf has a fringe on each end. tree →
• They camped on the fringe of the forest. tree →
• The rug had a long white fringe. tree →
• She grew out her fringe. tree →
• Houses spread out on the fringes of the town. tree →
• Not a tinkling of a metal fringe broke the silence. tree →

note

Countable. In the hair sense, British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand English say «fringe»; American English says «bangs».

In the corpora

• Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying.

Trees and pragmatics

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