refresh

«refresh» in Mova's school dictionary: to make someone feel less tired or hot, and more lively… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (refresh, refreshes, refreshed, refreshing); noun (a refresh — reloading a page)

meaning for a pupil

1) To refresh means to make someone feel less tired or hot, and more lively again. tree →

2) To refresh a web page or screen means to load it again so it shows the newest version. tree →

3) To refresh your memory means to remind yourself of something. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday life: a cold drink or a swim refreshes you on a hot day. Computing: press refresh to reload a page. Learning: revise to refresh your memory before a test. Phrases: refresh the page, refresh your memory, feel refreshed, a refreshing drink.

examples

• A glass of cold water will refresh you. tree →
• Refresh the page to see the new scores. tree →
• Let me refresh your memory: we read this chapter last week. tree →
• I felt refreshed after a nap. tree →
• The cool breeze refreshed the hikers. tree →
• The teacher refreshed the board with new questions. tree →

note

He refreshes (-es after sh). Adjective «refreshing» = pleasantly new or cooling; noun «refreshments» = snacks and drinks. re- means again: make fresh again.

In the corpora

• A short nap of about 20 minutes early in the afternoon can refresh you; a long late nap makes night sleep harder.
• And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.
• 'Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'

Trees and pragmatics

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