gravy

«gravy» in Mova's school dictionary: a hot brown sauce made from the juices of cooked meat… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (gravy — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Gravy is a hot brown sauce made from the juices of cooked meat, often thickened with flour, poured over meat, potatoes and other food. tree →

2) In the southern USA, gravy can also be a white creamy sauce served with biscuits. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, gravy is part of a roast dinner in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and of Thanksgiving and other meals in the USA and Canada. In Canada, poutine is chips with cheese curds and gravy. «Gravy train» is an informal phrase for an easy way to get money. Phrases: pour the gravy, gravy boat, meat and gravy, mashed potatoes and gravy.

examples

• Please pass the gravy. tree →
• Grandma made gravy from the juices of the roast chicken. tree →
• I like mashed potatoes with lots of gravy. tree →
• The gravy was too thick, so Dad added some water. tree →
• We put the gravy in a little jug called a gravy boat. tree →
• Poutine is chips with cheese curds and gravy. tree →
• Be careful: hot gravy can burn your tongue. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some gravy», not «a gravy». Different from «sauce», which can be cold or sweet; gravy is usually savoury and hot. Vegetarian gravy is made without meat juices.

In the corpora

• Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue about the government until the gravy goes cold.
• His grandma dropped her fork, the gravy went everywhere and Ollie lost his pudding.
• In Year 3 Sam and Jake did everything together: dens, conkers, the same rubbish joke about the dinner lady's gravy.

Trees and pragmatics

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