furred
part of speech
adjective (furred); verb form, past of fur (fur, furs, furred, furring)
meaning for a pupil
1) Covered with fur, or with a coat of soft hair: a furred animal. tree →
2) Lined or trimmed with fur, like a furred hood. tree →
3) (UK) Coated with a crusty layer, like a kettle furred with limescale or pipes furred up inside. tree →
4) (of a tongue) Covered with a whitish coating when you are ill. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, «furred» animals are mammals with fur that keeps them warm. In everyday British life a kettle «gets furred up» in hard-water areas because of limescale. In stories it describes animals, coats and cosy clothes. Phrases: furred up, a thick-furred coat, a furred tongue.
examples
- The fox is a furred animal with a bushy tail. tree →
- Her parka has a furred hood for the cold. tree →
- Our kettle is furred up with limescale. tree →
- Arctic hares are thickly furred to survive the winter. tree →
- The old pipes had furred inside and the water ran slowly. tree →
- When I had flu, my tongue felt furred. tree →
- Polar bears are furred even on the soles of their feet. tree →
- Mammals are furred, but birds are feathered. tree →
- These were a grey-furred, long-tailed tanuki, his wife the fox, who was one of his own family, and their little son. tree →
note
Spelling: double r before -ed (fur → furred, furring). Pronounced like «furd». Not the same as «fared» (got on) or «feared». «Furry» is the more common everyday adjective: a furry kitten.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «furred» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.