manoeuvre

«manoeuvre» in Mova's school dictionary: a planned movement of soldiers, ships or vehicles, often… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (manoeuvres, manoeuvred, manoeuvring); noun (manoeuvres)

meaning for a pupil

1) A manoeuvre is a planned movement of soldiers, ships or vehicles, often done as practice. tree →

2) To manoeuvre is to move something carefully or cleverly, or to steer it through a tight space. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, army practice with soldiers, or a clever plan to move a creature or a boat

examples

• The soldiers did their manoeuvres well at the review. tree →
• Comrade Wasp's-nest manoeuvred his wasps. tree →
• The boat manoeuvred carefully round the rocks. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

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