horse

«horse» in Mova's school dictionary: a big strong animal with four legs, hooves, a mane and a… — 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

noun (horse, horses)

meaning for a pupil

1) A horse is a big strong animal with four legs, hooves, a mane and a long tail, that people ride or use to pull carts. tree →

2) A horse (a vaulting horse) is a piece of gym equipment you jump over. tree →

3) A toy horse, like a rocking horse or a hobby horse, is made for children to play on. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, animals counted; 4 legs each; rides with a price or speed. In science, a horse is a mammal that eats grass and hay; a baby horse is a foal. In everyday life: horse riding, farms, police horses, races. In safety: never walk right behind a horse, it can kick. In stories, knights and cowboys ride horses. Phrases: «ride a horse», «on horseback», «horse riding», «hold your horses» (wait).

examples

• The farm has 6 horses. tree →
• Each horse eats 10 kg of hay a day. tree →
• How many legs do the horses have? tree →
• A horse ride costs 5 dollars. tree →
• She has riding lessons on a brown horse. tree →
• The horse pulled the cart up the hill. tree →
• A baby horse is called a foal. tree →
• The knight rode his white horse to the castle. tree →
• In gym class we jumped over the horse. tree →
• «Hold your horses!» said Dad, meaning «wait a moment». tree →
• The king leaped from his horse. tree →

note

Plural: horses. Animals counted; «each horse eats» is a rate. Trap: in leg puzzles a horse has 4 legs, a rider 2. Do not confuse with hoarse (a rough voice when you have a sore throat), which sounds the same.

In the corpora

• A reference is a photo or object you look at while you draw, like the photo Ling checked for her horse.
• You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's legs could be longer."
• Horse teeth keep growing out and wearing down on tough grass, so a vet can guess a horse's age from its teeth.
• Zebras defend themselves with powerful kicks and bites that can badly injure a lion, and they have never been tamed like horses.
• In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.

Trees and pragmatics

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