paring

«paring» in Mova's school dictionary: a thin strip peeled or cut off the skin of a fruit or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (parings)

meaning for a pupil

A paring is a thin strip peeled or cut off the skin of a fruit or vegetable. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a pig grubbing in a trough for potato parings; in cooking, the bits of peel left over

examples

• The pig ate the potato parings from the trough. tree →
• Save the apple parings for the compost. tree →
• She swept up the cabbage parings from the floor. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

Trees and pragmatics

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