rear
part of speech
noun (the rear); adjective (rear); verb (rear, rears, reared, rearing)
meaning for a pupil
1) The back part of something: "the rear of the bus". tree →
2) As an adjective, at the back: "the rear door", "rear lights". tree →
3) To rear children or animals means to look after them until they are grown up. tree →
4) When a horse rears, it stands up on its back legs. tree →
5) To rear something can also mean to lift it up high and build it in place. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and safety, cars and bikes have rear lights; children sit in the rear seats of a car. In science, farmers rear animals like sheep and chickens. In stories a frightened horse rears. Phrases: at the rear, rear seat, rear light, rear view mirror, rear up, bring up the rear.
examples
- Children should sit in the rear seat of the car. tree →
- We got off by the rear door of the bus. tree →
- My bike has a red rear light. tree →
- The teacher walked at the rear of the line. tree →
- The farmer rears sheep and goats. tree →
- The horse reared up when it saw the snake. tree →
- Swans rear their young on the river. tree →
- The marble block was reared in its place. tree →
note
As a noun usually "the rear". Opposite of rear: "front". "Bring up the rear" means to be last. Safety: a red light at the rear of a bike helps drivers see you at night. In the USA "raise" is more common than "rear" for children.
In the corpora
- The frightened old horse rears and backs, and drags the cart into the deep ditch: crash!
- A rear-facing baby seat is never put in front of an active airbag.
- Children sit in the back, and a rear-facing baby seat never goes in front of an active airbag.
- And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mount.
- 'On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rear» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.