ledge

«ledge» in Mova's school dictionary: a narrow, flat shelf sticking out from a wall, cliff or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a ledge, ledges)

meaning for a pupil

1) A ledge is a narrow, flat shelf sticking out from a wall, cliff or window. tree →

2) A window ledge (or windowsill) is the shelf at the bottom of a window. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories (climbing, rescues), nature (birds nest on cliff ledges), home (plants on the window ledge). Safety: do not climb onto ledges or lean out of windows.

examples

• A bird built its nest on the cliff ledge. tree →
• Put the plant on the window ledge. tree →
• The climber rested on a narrow ledge. tree →
• The cat sat on the ledge watching birds. tree →
• Never stand on a high ledge. tree →
• The book fell off the ledge. tree →
• The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter’s medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach. tree →

note

Countable. «Window ledge» (UK) ~ «windowsill». «Talk someone off the ledge» is an idiom: calm someone down.

In the corpora

• They find the Mock Turtle sitting sad and lonely on a ledge of rock, sighing as if his heart would break.
• Quarry water is very cold and deep and has hidden machinery and ledges, and people drown in it every summer.
• And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
• And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.

Trees and pragmatics

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