frown

«frown» in Mova's school dictionary: to bring your eyebrows together and wrinkle your forehead… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (frown, frowns, frowned, frowning); noun (a frown, frowns)

meaning for a pupil

1) To frown is to bring your eyebrows together and wrinkle your forehead because you are cross, worried, puzzled or thinking hard. tree →

2) A frown is this look on your face. tree →

3) To frown on or upon something is to disapprove of it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories a frown shows a character's feelings without words: anger, worry, confusion. In emotional-literacy lessons pupils read faces: a frown is the opposite of a smile. Phrases: «frown at», «frown on», «a deep frown», «turn that frown upside down».

examples

• The teacher frowned at the noisy class. tree →
• She frowned as she tried to solve the puzzle. tree →
• Why the frown? Are you all right? tree →
• Dad frowned when he saw the muddy floor. tree →
• Running in the corridor is frowned upon. tree →
• Turn that frown upside down! tree →
• He looked at the map with a puzzled frown. tree →

note

Regular verb. Rhymes with «brown». A frown is not always anger; it can mean thinking or worry, so look at the rest of the story.

In the corpora

• Suddenly the Queen stands in front of them, frowning like a thunderstorm: «either you or your head must be off».
• khlib means bread, often dark rye; it is respected, and grannies frown on dropping or throwing it.

Trees and pragmatics

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