graze
part of speech
verb (graze, grazes, grazed, grazing); noun (graze, grazes)
meaning for a pupil
1) To graze is when animals like cows, sheep and horses eat grass in a field. tree →
2) To graze your skin is to scrape it a little, like a knee when you fall. A graze is that small scrape. tree →
3) To graze can also mean to touch something lightly as you pass. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: animals counted in a field; or a field shared among animals; animals joining to graze add, leaving take away. In science: grazing animals (herbivores) eat plants. First aid: clean a graze with water and cover it with a plaster. Phrases: graze in the field, graze your knee, a nasty graze.
examples
- 12 cows graze in the field. tree →
- 5 more sheep came to graze. tree →
- The horses graze for 6 hours a day. tree →
- How many animals graze on the hill now? tree →
- Deer graze at the edge of the forest at dawn. tree →
- She fell off her bike and grazed her knee. tree →
- Wash the graze and put a plaster on it. tree →
- The ball grazed the top of the net. tree →
note
Regular verb: grazed, grazing. A graze (scrape) is small; a cut is deeper. An action of the story; animals joining to graze add, leaving take away. No clue by itself.
In the corpora
- Dugongs are sea cows that graze on sea grass, and sailors long ago may have mistaken dugongs and manatees for mermaids.
- When you graze your knee, blood dries into a scab that seals the gap like a plaster while new skin grows underneath.
- A cut or graze that is not cleaned can become infected, getting red, swollen, warm and painful.
- Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out, and a cut or graze is a hole in that wall.
- A graze scrapes off the top layer of skin, and dirt left in it can cause an infection.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «graze» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.