garden
part of speech
noun (garden, gardens); verb (garden, gardens, gardened, gardening)
meaning for a pupil
1) A garden is a piece of land where people grow flowers, fruit or vegetables. tree →
2) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the garden is also the grass area around a house; Americans often call it the yard. tree →
3) Gardens are also a public park with plants, like botanical gardens. tree →
4) To garden is to work in a garden, planting, weeding and watering. tree →
sense in the lessons
A place with rows of plants counted, or a rectangle with area and perimeter (fence). In science: plants need sun, water and soil; a school garden shows how seeds grow. In stories: secret gardens, gnomes. Phrases: «vegetable garden», «back garden», «flower garden», «gardening gloves».
examples
- The garden has 6 rows of 8 tomato plants. tree →
- A garden is 10 m long and 4 m wide. tree →
- She picked 25 carrots from her garden. tree →
- How much fence goes around the garden? tree →
- Our school has a garden where we grow beans. tree →
- Grandpa loves gardening on Saturdays. tree →
- The kids played football in the back garden. tree →
- We visited the botanic gardens and saw huge cactuses. tree →
note
Rows × plants per row gives the total; length × width gives area; the fence around is the perimeter. Trap: fence means perimeter, soil or grass means area. Wear gloves when gardening and wash your hands after touching soil.
In the corpora
- Gardens need regular weeding, mowing and watering or they quickly grow wild.
- Leafcutter ants do not eat the leaves they carry: they chew them to grow a fungus garden underground and eat the fungus.
- Many zoos turn elephant dung into compost for gardens, and in some countries it is even made into paper.
- Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away.
- City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «garden» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.