jersey

«jersey» in Mova's school dictionary: a knitted top with sleeves, like a jumper or sweater — 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 jersey, jerseys; Jersey — the island)

meaning for a pupil

1) A jersey is a knitted top with sleeves, like a jumper or sweater. tree →

2) A jersey is a shirt worn by players in a sports team, often with a number on it. tree →

3) Jersey is a soft stretchy cloth used for T-shirts. tree →

4) Jersey is an island in the English Channel, and a Jersey is a breed of cow from there. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, in New Zealand and Australia a jersey is the usual word for a jumper; in the USA and Canada a jersey usually means a sports shirt. In PE and sports, teams wear jerseys with numbers and colours. New Jersey is a state in the USA, named after the island. Phrases: team jersey, football jersey, a woolly jersey.

examples

• Put on your jersey, it's cold outside. tree →
• Our team jerseys are blue with white numbers. tree →
• He wore number ten on his jersey. tree →
• Grandma knitted me a woolly jersey. tree →
• Jersey cows give very creamy milk. tree →
• My pyjamas are made of soft jersey. tree →

note

Countable: jerseys (just add s). Capital J for the island, the state New Jersey and the cow breed. Its meaning changes by country: jumper (UK), sweater (US), jersey (NZ).

In the corpora

• Le maillot jaune is the yellow jersey worn by the rider leading the whole race, not a team colour.

Trees and pragmatics

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