hangnail

«hangnail» in Mova's school dictionary: A small torn piece of skin hanging loose at the side or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hangnail, hangnails)

meaning for a pupil

A small torn piece of skin hanging loose at the side or bottom of a fingernail, which can hurt. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and hygiene lessons: don't bite or pull a hangnail — snip it carefully with clean clippers, wash your hands and keep the skin moisturised, or it can get infected. Hangnails come from dry skin and nail biting.

examples

• I've got a sore hangnail on my thumb. tree →
• Don't pull your hangnail; you'll make it bleed. tree →
• Mum cut off my hangnail with nail clippers. tree →
• Biting your nails can cause hangnails. tree →
• Hand cream helps stop hangnails in winter. tree →
• A hangnail can get red and infected if you pick at it. tree →

note

Countable. Trap: despite the name, a hangnail is skin, not part of the nail.

In the corpora

• A hangnail is clipped with clean clippers, because pulling it tears the skin and can cause infection.

Trees and pragmatics

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