linen

«linen» in Mova's school dictionary: a strong, cool cloth made from the flax plant — 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 (linen, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Linen is a strong, cool cloth made from the flax plant. tree →

2) Linen (or household linen) means sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths and towels, even when they are made of cotton. tree →

3) (church) The white cloths used on the altar for communion are called altar linens. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history: the ancient Egyptians wrapped mummies in linen. In everyday life: bed linen, a linen cupboard, table linen. In science and technology: flax fibres are spun into linen thread.

examples

• Mum keeps the sheets in the linen cupboard. tree →
• My summer shirt is made of linen. tree →
• The ancient Egyptians wove fine linen. tree →
• Please change the bed linen on Saturday. tree →
• The linen tablecloth was white and crisp. tree →
• Linen comes from the stems of the flax plant. tree →
• The priest folded the white linen on the altar. tree →
• He is wrapped in yellow linen, and embalmed with spices. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some linen», «a linen shirt». Used as an adjective: linen sheets. Phrase: «wash your dirty linen in public» means talk about private family problems where others can hear.

In the corpora

• Bodies were dried with a special salt and wrapped in linen to make mummies, nothing like the walking mummies of films.
• and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;
• And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
• and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;
• All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

Trees and pragmatics

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