pied
part of speech
adjective (pied); also French word «pied» (foot)
meaning for a pupil
1) Pied means having patches of two or more colours, especially black and white, like a magpie or a pied wagtail. tree →
2) The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a character in an old German legend, a piper in colourful clothes who leads away the rats and then the children. tree →
3) (French) «Pied» means «foot» in French; «à pied» means «on foot». It is said roughly «pee-AY» and is not an English word in this sense. tree →
sense in the lessons
In nature lessons it appears in bird names (pied wagtail, pied kingfisher, pied currawong in Australia). In literature it is the Pied Piper story, about keeping promises. In French lessons it is the word for foot. Phrases: «the Pied Piper», «pied wagtail», «à pied» (French).
examples
- A pied wagtail hopped across the playground. tree →
- The Pied Piper played his pipe and the rats followed him. tree →
- The town did not pay the Pied Piper, so he led the children away. tree →
- The pied horse had big black and white patches. tree →
- In French, «Je vais à l'école à pied» means «I go to school on foot». tree →
- A pied currawong was calling from the gum tree. tree →
- Magpies have pied feathers. tree →
- "I'm called the Pied Piper," he began. tree →
note
In English it is an old-fashioned adjective used mostly in names. A «pied-à-terre» is a small second flat in a city (from French, «foot on the ground»). In French, «pied» is said «pee-AY», with no «d» sound at the end.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pied» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.