porch

«porch» in Mova's school dictionary: A small covered area or room at the entrance to a house… — 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 porch, porches)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small covered area or room at the entrance to a house, outside the front door. tree →

2) (US, Canada) A covered area along the front or side of a house where people can sit; a veranda. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: leaving shoes or wet umbrellas in the porch, sitting on the porch on summer evenings, parcels left on the porch. In safety: «porch pirates» steal parcels; porch lights help visitors see at night. Phrases: «front porch», «back porch», «porch light», «on the porch».

examples

• Leave your muddy boots in the porch. tree →
• We sat on the porch and drank lemonade. tree →
• The parcel was left on the front porch. tree →
• Turn on the porch light for the visitors. tree →
• Grandpa has a rocking chair on his porch. tree →
• A cat was sleeping on our porch. tree →
• Now one night he heard some one knocking at the porch, asking for admittance. tree →

note

Plural: porches (-es after ch). «On the porch» (US, an open area), «in the porch» (UK, a small room). Similar: veranda/verandah, deck, stoop.

In the corpora

• Her heart raced, her dog hid under the bed for a whole day, and the porch boards were scorched.
• Making amends can be work as well as money, like painting a porch you damaged.
• Her heart raced, her dog hid under the bed for a whole day, and the porch boards were scorched.
• Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and locked them.
• And his house where he might dwell, in the other court, within the porch, was of the like work.

Trees and pragmatics

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