pain

«pain» in Mova's school dictionary: the feeling you have when part of your body is hurt or ill — 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

noun (a pain, pains; pain — uncountable); verb (pain — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) Pain is the feeling you have when part of your body is hurt or ill. tree →

2) Pain can be a feeling of great sadness: the pain of losing a pet. tree →

3) «A pain» (informal) is an annoying person or thing. tree →

4) «Take pains» means try very hard to do something carefully. tree →

5) To pain someone means to hurt them or make them feel sad. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and science, pain is a warning signal from nerves to the brain that something is wrong; tell an adult about pain that is strong, keeps coming back, or follows a fall or bite. In first aid, cool a burn with water to ease pain. Phrases: «in pain», «a pain in the neck» (annoying), «growing pains», «no pain, no gain» (hard work brings results), «pain-free».

examples

• I have a pain in my tummy. tree →
• He was in pain after he fell. tree →
• Tell an adult if the pain gets worse. tree →
• Cool water helps the pain of a burn. tree →
• My little brother can be a pain. tree →
• She took great pains to make the card neat. tree →
• Losing her dog caused her a lot of pain. tree →
• Painkillers should only be taken with an adult. tree →
• His foot pained him more and more. tree →

note

Uncountable as a feeling («a lot of pain»), countable for a single one («sharp pains»). «Painful» = causing pain. Homophone: «pane» (a sheet of glass in a window) sounds the same.

In the corpora

• Playing too long without breaks can cause overuse injuries, and pushing through pain can make them worse.
• The bullet ant has one of the most painful insect stings known, and the pain can last for many hours.
• Animals feel pain and fear like us, so hurting them on purpose is wrong.
• Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and pain medicines have been made from cone snail venom.
• Toad feels «a dull pain in the lower part of his spine» — that is how fear feels to him.

Trees and pragmatics

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