manicure
part of speech
noun (a manicure, manicures); verb (manicure, manicures, manicured, manicuring)
meaning for a pupil
1) A beauty treatment for the hands and fingernails: cutting, shaping and often painting the nails. tree →
2) (verb) To give someone a manicure. tree →
3) (adjective form: manicured) Very neat and carefully trimmed: a manicured lawn. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life people go to a nail salon for a manicure. In stories a «manicured lawn» or «manicured garden» tells the reader the place is very neat and probably rich. Phrases: have a manicure, get a manicure, manicure and pedicure.
examples
- Mum had a manicure before the wedding. tree →
- My sister painted my nails and called it a manicure. tree →
- The salon offers manicures and pedicures. tree →
- The palace had perfectly manicured lawns. tree →
- He manicures his nails himself. tree →
- She got a sparkly manicure for her birthday. tree →
- The hedges were neatly manicured. tree →
- A manicure takes about half an hour. tree →
note
Countable noun. A person who does manicures is a «manicurist». «Mani-» comes from a word for hand; a pedicure is for feet. Spelling: manICure.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «manicure» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.