prune

«prune» in Mova's school dictionary: a dried plum, dark and wrinkly, eaten as a snack or cooked — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a prune, prunes); verb (prune, prunes, pruned, pruning)

meaning for a pupil

1) A prune is a dried plum, dark and wrinkly, eaten as a snack or cooked. tree →

2) (verb) To prune a tree or bush is to cut off some branches so it grows better. tree →

3) (verb) To prune something is to cut out parts you do not need, such as words in a story. tree →

sense in the lessons

In gardening and science lessons pruning helps plants grow healthy; in everyday life prunes are a food said to help digestion; in English lessons pupils prune long sentences. Phrases: prune the roses, prune juice, fingers like prunes.

examples

• Grandpa likes prunes with his breakfast. tree →
• We pruned the apple tree in winter. tree →
• Prunes are dried plums. tree →
• After the bath my fingers looked like prunes. tree →
• Prune your story so it is not too long. tree →
• Dad pruned the hedge with shears. tree →

note

Countable for the fruit (prunes). Verb past form: pruned. In some languages «prune» means a fresh plum (French «prune»); in English it is a dried one — a false friend.

In the corpora

• Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof.

Trees and pragmatics

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