kid
part of speech
noun (kid, kids); verb (kid, kids, kidded, kidding)
meaning for a pupil
1) A kid is a child or a young person. tree →
2) A kid is a young goat. tree →
3) To kid is to joke or tease in a friendly way; «just kidding» means «I was joking». tree →
sense in the lessons
people counted: kids at camp, at school, or going home; «kid» is an everyday, friendly word, while «child» is more formal; phrases «just kidding», «are you kidding?», «kids' menu»
examples
- There were 30 kids at camp. tree →
- 18 kids went home. tree →
- Each kid got 2 apples. tree →
- How many kids stayed at camp? tree →
- The kids played soccer after school. tree →
- The goat had two kids in the spring. tree →
- I'm just kidding, I didn't really eat your cake! tree →
- Kids under 5 ride the bus for free. tree →
- Are you kidding? That's amazing! tree →
- She ordered from the kids' menu. tree →
- The Kid knew there was little hope for him. tree →
note
A thing counted. «went home», «left» take away; «each kid got N» gives a rate. Trap: kids at camp and kids at home are separate groups. «Kid» is informal; in writing for school, «child» or «children» is often better. «Kidding» has a double d.
In the corpora
- Judging a whole group, like «the kids from the flats», from one picture is how prejudice starts.
- After an accident, families often set up a kids profile, turn off autoplay and turn on safe search.
- You don't have to explain everything; one sentence is enough: "I saw something not for kids."
- Grown-ups help with tools: kids profiles, autoplay switched off, safe search, PINs and report buttons.
- Alice finds she has put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves, which tells her she is growing small again.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «kid» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.