occupy

«occupy» in Mova's school dictionary: To live in or use a building, room or space — 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 (occupy, occupies, occupied, occupying)

meaning for a pupil

1) To live in or use a building, room or space. tree →

2) To fill time or keep someone busy. tree →

3) To take control of a place by force, such as an army. tree →

4) To have a job or position. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: "the table occupies 2 square metres". Signs: "occupied" on a toilet door means someone is inside. In history: the army occupied the town. Phrases: occupy yourself, keep busy, occupied with.

examples

• The family occupies the flat on the top floor. tree →
• The toilet is occupied: please wait. tree →
• Reading occupies me on long journeys. tree →
• The soldiers occupied the castle. tree →
• The table occupies a lot of space. tree →
• She occupies an important job at the council. tree →
• Keep the toddler occupied with toys. tree →
• I am glad to find that I still occupy a corner in your mind. tree →

note

y changes to i: occupies, occupied. Noun: occupation (job, or control of a place); occupant (someone inside). In area problems, the space occupied is measured in square units.

In the corpora

• "Nation-building" means occupying a country (moving in with soldiers and taking control) and remaking its government.
• Japan occupied Manchuria in 1931 and began full war on China in 1937; millions of Chinese died before Japan's defeat in 1945.
• Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with Thy statutes continually.

Trees and pragmatics

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