grin

«grin» in Mova's school dictionary: To smile widely, often showing your teeth — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (grin, grins, grinned, grinning); noun (a grin, grins)

meaning for a pupil

1) To smile widely, often showing your teeth. tree →

2) (noun) A wide, happy or cheeky smile. tree →

3) Phrase «grin and bear it»: to put up with something unpleasant without complaining. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories a grin shows joy, mischief or cheekiness: «he grinned from ear to ear». «Grin and bear it» is an idiom for being patient. Phrases: grin from ear to ear, a cheeky grin, a big grin, wipe that grin off your face.

examples

• Max grinned when he saw the birthday cake. tree →
• She had a cheeky grin on her face. tree →
• He grinned from ear to ear after scoring a goal. tree →
• The Cheshire Cat's grin stayed after the cat disappeared. tree →
• The injection hurt, but I had to grin and bear it. tree →
• Wipe that grin off your face and tidy your room! tree →
• “At this the spectre grinned in my face and cried mockingly: tree →

note

Past: grinned; -ing: grinning (double n). A grin is usually wider than a smile. Do not mix up with «grind» or «groan».

In the corpora

• Which bits do you reckon they picked?" Alfie grins: "The shouty ones."
• Then a grin appears in the air: the Cheshire Cat.
• Dad grins: «That's my boy.»
• «Double car journeys, more like,» says Frida, grinning anyway.
• Daisy scrolls Instagram and sees Dad's new family: two little kids at the beach, Dad grinning.

Trees and pragmatics

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