kick
part of speech
verb (kick, kicks, kicked, kicking; kick off, kick out); noun (a kick, kicks)
meaning for a pupil
1) To hit something with your foot. tree →
2) Of a person or animal: to move the legs strongly: babies kick, horses kick. tree →
3) A noun: a hit with the foot: a free kick, a penalty kick. tree →
4) Kick off: to start a football match, or to start anything. tree →
5) Informal: a feeling of fun or excitement: «I get a kick out of it». tree →
sense in the lessons
In sport: kick the ball, free kick, penalty kick, corner kick; kick-off starts a match. In behaviour: kicking people is hurting — never okay. In safety: horses can kick if you stand behind them. In swimming: kick your legs. Phrases: kick the ball, free kick, kick-off, kick out, kick the habit, kick up a fuss, get a kick out of.
examples
- Kick the ball to me! tree →
- The match kicks off at three. tree →
- He scored with a free kick. tree →
- Don't stand behind a horse — it might kick. tree →
- Kick your legs when you swim. tree →
- It's not okay to kick people. tree →
- The baby kicked its feet. tree →
- She kicked up a fuss about her dinner. tree →
- It made Peter kick instead of stab. tree →
note
Regular verb: kicked. «Kick-off» (noun) has a hyphen; «kick off» (verb) does not. Kicking is hurting even if it is «just a game».
In the corpora
- Hopak is a lively Ukrainian folk dance with big jumps and squat-kicks, linked to Cossack traditions.
- Zebras defend themselves with powerful kicks and bites that can badly injure a lion, and they have never been tamed like horses.
- An ostrich in danger runs at up to about seventy kilometres an hour or kicks hard.
- Kick through a pile of yellow and red leaves and you are walking on a tree's old solar panels.
- In autumn you kick through piles of yellow, orange and red leaves.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «kick» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.