oxbow

«oxbow» in Mova's school dictionary: a curved lake that forms when a bend (meander) of a river… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (oxbow, oxbows); adjective use (oxbow lake)

meaning for a pupil

1) An oxbow (oxbow lake) is a curved lake that forms when a bend (meander) of a river is cut off from the main river. tree →

2) An oxbow is also a big U-shaped bend in a river. tree →

3) An oxbow is a U-shaped wooden collar that fits around an ox's neck to fix it to a yoke. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, oxbow lakes are a classic feature of rivers in their lower course: erosion on the outside of meanders and deposition on the inside slowly cut off a loop, especially in floods. Pupils draw diagrams of how an oxbow lake forms. Common phrases: «oxbow lake», «form an oxbow», «meander and oxbow».

examples

• An oxbow lake forms when a meander is cut off. tree →
• We drew a diagram of how an oxbow lake forms. tree →
• The Mississippi River has many oxbow lakes. tree →
• Ducks swam on the quiet oxbow. tree →
• The flood cut through the neck of the meander and made an oxbow. tree →
• The farmer's old ox wore a wooden oxbow. tree →
• Oxbow lakes slowly fill with mud and plants. tree →

note

Plural: oxbows. A compound of «ox» + «bow» (bow rhymes with «go»). The lake gets its name because its curve looks like the U-shaped oxbow collar.

In the corpora

• If it cuts across the neck of a loop, the old loop is left behind as an oxbow lake.
• An oxbow lake forms when a river cuts through the narrow neck of a meander and leaves the loop behind.

Trees and pragmatics

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