naked

«naked» in Mova's school dictionary: Without any clothes on — 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

adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Without any clothes on. tree →

2) Without the usual cover: a naked flame, a naked light bulb, naked branches. tree →

3) Not hidden; plain and obvious: naked greed. tree →

4) the naked eye: your eyes alone, without a telescope or microscope. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons «with the naked eye» means without tools: «you can see Venus with the naked eye». In safety lessons, a «naked flame» (open flame) is dangerous near gas. In everyday life babies run around naked after a bath. Phrases: the naked eye, stark naked, naked flame, the naked truth.

examples

• You can see some planets with the naked eye. tree →
• No naked flames near the camping gas! tree →
• The baby ran around naked after his bath. tree →
• In winter the trees are naked. tree →
• Germs are too small to see with the naked eye. tree →
• The emperor walked through the town naked in the story. tree →
• The naked bulb gave a harsh light. tree →
• She told him the naked truth. tree →
• What harm can a naked frog do us? tree →

note

Said NAY-kid (two syllables). Similar: nude (more formal), bare (for parts of the body or things). «Stark naked» = completely naked. Safety: «naked flame» means an open flame.

In the corpora

• The Great Wall cannot be seen with the naked eye from space, because although it is very long it is narrow.
• And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
• And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked?
• And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
• For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Trees and pragmatics

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