orange
part of speech
noun (orange, oranges); adjective (orange)
meaning for a pupil
1) An orange is a round, juicy fruit with a thick skin; it grows on a tree. tree →
2) Orange is a color between red and yellow, like the color of carrots and pumpkins. tree →
sense in the lessons
a fruit counted (picked, sold, put in sacks) or a color word; in art, orange is made by mixing red and yellow; oranges give vitamin C; phrases «orange juice», «peel an orange»
examples
- They harvest 65 sacks of oranges each day. tree →
- She bought 12 oranges. tree →
- 25 of the sacks are of ripe oranges. tree →
- He has 6 orange marbles. tree →
- I peeled an orange and shared it. tree →
- Mix red and yellow to make orange. tree →
- Pumpkins are orange. tree →
- A glass of orange juice comes with breakfast. tree →
- The sky turned orange at sunset. tree →
- An orange has about 10 segments. tree →
- He hardly had courage to open his last orange. tree →
note
A thing counted, or a kind (color). Trap: «orange» before another noun is a color, not the fruit. Use «an orange», not «a orange». Nothing rhymes well with «orange» — a fun fact.
In the corpora
- Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper.
- Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.
- In some caves dwarf crocodiles have turned orange, possibly from living among bat droppings.
- Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy.
- Oranges came from Asia and spread along trade routes; in English the colour orange was named after the fruit.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «orange» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.