peel

«peel» in Mova's school dictionary: to take the skin off fruit or vegetables — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (peel, peels, peeled, peeling); noun (peel)

meaning for a pupil

1) To peel is to take the skin off fruit or vegetables. tree →

2) The peel is the skin, like a banana peel or orange peel. tree →

3) To peel can mean that a thin layer comes off by itself: paint peels, skin peels after sunburn. tree →

4) To peel off a sticker is to pull it away. tree →

5) To peel can also mean to strip the bark off a tree or a stick. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: an action done to fruit; peels per minute; the weight of the peel taken away. In the kitchen: peeling potatoes and carrots with an adult. In science: skin peels after sunburn; old paint peels in the sun and rain. In stories: «Keep your eyes peeled» means watch carefully.

examples

• She peels 6 potatoes. tree →
• He peels 3 apples a minute. tree →
• The orange peel weighs 40 grams. tree →
• How many potatoes are peeled in 5 minutes? tree →
• Peel the banana before you eat it. tree →
• The paint on the old fence is peeling. tree →
• My nose peeled after the sunburn. tree →
• Peel off the sticker carefully. tree →
• Keep your eyes peeled for the bus. tree →
• He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood. tree →

note

Peeling at a speed is a rate: total = rate × time. Peel weight is taken away from the whole fruit. Trap: peeled potatoes are still the same number of potatoes. «Peel» (the skin) is usually uncountable. Homophone: peal (the ringing of bells). Safety: use a peeler carefully and ask an adult; a banana peel on the floor is slippery.

In the corpora

• Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.
• Carving or peeling bark wounds a tree and lets in disease that can kill it.
• Oliver's nan calls police «bobbies» after Robert Peel, who set up London's police.
• If a blister bursts, leave the loose skin in place and cover it, rather than peeling it off.

Trees and pragmatics

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