hawk
part of speech
noun (a hawk, hawks); verb (hawk, hawks, hawked, hawking)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bird of prey with sharp eyes, a hooked beak and strong claws (talons), which hunts small animals. tree →
2) (verb) To sell things by walking about and calling out, like at a market. tree →
3) (verb) To clear your throat noisily. tree →
4) A person who prefers strong, warlike actions (opposite of a dove). tree →
sense in the lessons
In science: hawks are predators at the top of a food chain; they have amazing eyesight. Phrases: «eyes like a hawk», «watch someone like a hawk» (watch very closely). In history: street sellers hawked goods (a hawker).
examples
- A hawk was circling high above the field. tree →
- The hawk swooped down and caught a mouse. tree →
- Our teacher watches us like a hawk during tests. tree →
- The hawk's sharp talons grip its prey. tree →
- Street sellers hawked newspapers on the corner. tree →
- Hawks can see a mouse from very high up. tree →
note
Countable. Verb: hawked, hawking; a «hawker» is a street seller. Hawks are birds of prey like eagles and falcons but usually smaller than eagles. Do not confuse with «hock».
In the corpora
- Harris's hawks hunt in family groups, which is rare for birds of prey, and they are often trained by falconers.
- Almost everyone wants to eat a mouse: cats, owls, foxes, weasels, snakes and hawks.
- In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks.
- Raptors held their big curved toe claw off the ground while walking and probably used it to pin down prey, like hawks today.
- Hawking's leaking, called Hawking radiation, has never been directly observed, because it is far too faint.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hawk» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.