picnic

«picnic» in Mova's school dictionary: a meal eaten outside, often in a park or on a beach… — 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 (picnic, picnics); verb (picnic, picnics, picnicked, picnicking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A picnic is a meal eaten outside, often in a park or on a beach, sitting on a blanket. tree →

2) To picnic is to have a picnic. tree →

3) «No picnic» means not easy: «Moving house is no picnic». tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: an outing where food, people and things are counted and shared; sharing equally means divide. In everyday life: summer picnics, picnic baskets, picnic tables. In science and safety: keep food cool, take rubbish home, watch out for wasps and the sun. In stories: «The Teddy Bears' Picnic»; ants at a picnic.

examples

• They took 12 sandwiches to the picnic. tree →
• 8 friends went on a picnic. tree →
• Each person at the picnic got 2 apples. tree →
• How many cups are needed for the picnic? tree →
• We had a picnic by the lake. tree →
• Pack the picnic basket with fruit and water. tree →
• Ants crawled all over our picnic blanket. tree →
• Take your rubbish home after a picnic. tree →
• Learning to skate was no picnic! tree →
• I remember when I went out to a picnic with the furrier's family, on the day his daughter was betrothed,--it seems as if it only happened yesterday. tree →

note

A place of the story; counts of food and people. Sharing equally = divide. No operation by itself. Spelling: picnicked and picnicking add a «k». Safety: drink water, wear sunscreen, and keep food covered.

In the corpora

• Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.
• When a chatbot describes its weekend or its picnic, it is making up a story, because it has no weekends.
• Before they set off, the Rat climbs up into his hole and comes back staggering under a fat wicker picnic basket.
• The Mole has to trot up and down to dry himself while the Rat rescues the boat and dives for the picnic basket.
• Words ending in c add a k to keep the hard sound: panic, panicking; picnic, picnicked.

Trees and pragmatics

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