honeypot

«honeypot» in Mova's school dictionary: A pot for keeping honey — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a honeypot, honeypots)

meaning for a pupil

1) A pot for keeping honey. tree →

2) (informal) A place or thing that attracts lots of people, like bees to honey: a tourist honeypot. tree →

3) (computers) A trap set up to catch hackers by pretending to be an easy target. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories Winnie-the-Pooh keeps his honey in honeypots. In geography lessons a «honeypot site» is a popular place that gets crowded with visitors, which can cause traffic, litter and damage. Phrases: «honeypot site», «tourist honeypot».

examples

• Pooh had his head stuck in a honeypot. tree →
• The village is a honeypot for tourists in summer. tree →
• Honeypot sites need car parks and bins. tree →
• The bear licked the honeypot clean. tree →
• The company set up a honeypot to catch hackers. tree →

note

One word (sometimes «honey pot»). In geography «honeypot» is a key term for tourism problems.

In the corpora

• Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times.
• Honeypot ants turn some workers into living jars of sweet liquid.

Trees and pragmatics

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