linger

«linger» in Mova's school dictionary: to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (linger, lingers, lingered, lingering)

meaning for a pupil

1) To linger is to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed, because you do not want to leave. tree →

2) To linger is when a smell, feeling or illness stays for a long time. tree →

3) To linger over something is to take your time with it. tree →

sense in the lessons

Stories: «she lingered at the gate». Everyday: smells and colds that linger. School: «Don't linger in the corridors.» It tells the reader something is slow to go away.

examples

• We lingered on the beach until sunset. tree →
• The smell of smoke lingered for days. tree →
• Don't linger in the corridor. tree →
• A cough can linger after a cold. tree →
• He lingered over his breakfast. tree →
• The happy memory lingered in her mind. tree →
• Oh, sir, do not linger here, or he will eat you too.’ tree →

note

Regular: lingered, lingering. Adjective «lingering» (a lingering smell).

In the corpora

• Well, well, we won't linger over that now.»
• For except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.'
• And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.

Trees and pragmatics

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