pullover

«pullover» in Mova's school dictionary: A knitted top with sleeves that you pull on over your… — 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 pullover, pullovers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A knitted top with sleeves that you pull on over your head; a jumper or sweater. tree →

2) (rare) Anything that is pulled over something else. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday and school life, children wear a pullover in cold weather or as part of a school uniform. In maths word problems: «A pullover costs $15 in a 20% off sale». In stories, Granny knits a woolly pullover. Phrases: «a woolly pullover», «school pullover», «a V-neck pullover».

examples

• Put on your pullover; it's cold outside. tree →
• My school pullover is navy blue. tree →
• Gran knitted me a red pullover. tree →
• A pullover costs £12 and a hat costs £5. tree →
• He took off his pullover after running. tree →
• I can't find my pullover in lost property. tree →
• This pullover is too itchy. tree →

note

Countable: pullovers. One word. Similar: jumper (UK, Australia, Ireland, NZ), sweater (US, Canada), jersey (NZ). Do not confuse with «pull over» (verb: a car stops at the side of the road).

In the corpora

• un pull ("PUL") is a jumper, borrowed from the English word pullover and made shorter.

Trees and pragmatics

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