honey
part of speech
noun (honey, honeys)
meaning for a pupil
1) Honey is a sweet, thick, golden food made by bees from the nectar of flowers. tree →
2) «Honey» is also a loving name for someone, like «dear» or «sweetie». tree →
sense in the lessons
an amount measured in jars, kilograms or spoons; in science: bees collect nectar, store honey in a honeycomb and need it for food in winter; in everyday life: honey on toast, in tea; in stories: bears love honey; phrases: «as sweet as honey», «honeycomb», «honeybee»
examples
- A jar holds 500 g of honey. tree →
- The bees made 12 kg of honey. tree →
- She uses 2 spoons of honey. tree →
- How many jars of honey can be filled? tree →
- Bees make honey from the nectar of flowers. tree →
- I like honey on my toast. tree →
- Winnie-the-Pooh loves honey. tree →
- Come here, honey, it's time for bed. tree →
- The beekeeper took the honeycomb from the hive. tree →
note
Measured, not counted one by one: jars = amount ÷ per jar (watch units: 1 kg = 1,000 g). Uncountable: some honey, a jar of honey. Safety: babies under one year old should not eat honey.
In the corpora
- Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into honey and pollen feeds the young bees.
- Honey hardly ever goes off, because it is so sugary and dry that germs cannot grow in it.
- Real bears and honey badgers raid bee nests and eat the protein-rich grubs as well as the honey.
- In late summer the beekeeper slices the wax caps off heavy frames and spins the honey out in a drum called an extractor.
- And the cartoon bear who eats honey straight from a pot?
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «honey» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.