lunch

«lunch» in Mova's school dictionary: the meal you eat in the middle of the day — 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 (lunch, lunches); verb (lunch, lunches, lunched, lunching)

meaning for a pupil

1) Lunch is the meal you eat in the middle of the day. tree →

2) Lunch is also the time when it is eaten: see you at lunch. tree →

3) To lunch is to eat lunch (a formal word). tree →

4) A packed lunch is food you take from home in a box or bag. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths it is a meal with a price, a count of children, or a time marker in a story: a price per lunch × days is a rate, and «after lunch» marks the order of events. In everyday school life: lunchbox, lunch break, school lunch, the lunch line, the cafeteria or canteen. Health: a good lunch has fruit or vegetables, some protein and water.

examples

• Lunch costs 4 dollars. tree →
• She buys lunch 5 days a week. tree →
• 20 children brought a packed lunch. tree →
• After lunch he had 3 cookies left. tree →
• What's in your lunchbox today? tree →
• We play football at lunch. tree →
• Lunch is at half past twelve. tree →
• Grandpa took us out to lunch on Sunday. tree →
• Wash your hands before lunch. tree →
• For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns, with a dash of cold water for drink. tree →

note

Usually no «a» or «the»: have lunch, at lunch (but «a big lunch», «a packed lunch»). Plural: «lunches». In some homes in the UK, Ireland and Australia the midday meal is called «dinner», and the evening one «tea». Maths: a price per lunch × days. Trap: a week of school lunches is usually 5 days.

In the corpora

• The Mole, full of lunch and pride, thinks rowing looks easy.
• Toad «diplomatically»: «Come along in, and have some lunch ...
• At lunch the poor Rat has to tell the Badger and the Mole.
• Hungry, he walks into the Red Lion inn in a little town and orders the best lunch they have.
• Over lunch Toad tells all his adventures as if they were splendid fun, and the Rat grows more and more grave and silent.

Trees and pragmatics

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