mew

«mew» in Mova's school dictionary: The soft, high crying sound a cat or kitten makes; to… — 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 (mew, mews, mewed, mewing); noun (a mew, mews)

meaning for a pupil

1) The soft, high crying sound a cat or kitten makes; to make this sound. tree →

2) The cry of a gull or other bird, especially the mew gull (a kind of seagull). tree →

3) (mews, UK) A row of old stables in a city, now turned into houses, or a small street with such houses. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life, kittens mew when they are hungry; «miaow» or «meow» is the usual word for the sound. In the UK, a «mews» is a pretty, narrow street of small houses in cities like London. Phrases: mew softly, a mews house.

examples

• The kitten mewed for its mother. tree →
• We heard a tiny mew from under the shed. tree →
• Gulls mewed over the harbour. tree →
• My aunt lives in a mews in London. tree →
• The cat gave a sad little mew at the door. tree →
• A mew gull is smaller than a herring gull. tree →
• And then it mewed more than ever. tree →

note

Regular verb: mewed, mewing. Compare: meow / miaow (louder, the usual word), purr (happy rumble), hiss (angry). «Mews» (street) is singular with an «s»: «a mews». Pronounced MYOO, like «mule» without the «l».

In the corpora

• White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills to greet each other, while chicks hiss and mew before they learn to clatter.
• and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;
• and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

Trees and pragmatics

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