rinse

«rinse» in Mova's school dictionary: to wash it quickly with clean water, often to remove soap… — 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

verb (rinse, rinses, rinsed, rinsing); noun (a rinse)

meaning for a pupil

1) To rinse something means to wash it quickly with clean water, often to remove soap or dirt. tree →

2) A rinse is a quick wash in water. tree →

sense in the lessons

In hygiene, rinse your hands after soaping them and rinse your mouth after brushing (only a little, so fluoride stays). In the kitchen, rinse fruit and vegetables before eating, and rinse dishes. In safety and first aid, if chemicals or something stings your eyes or skin, rinse with lots of clean, cool water and tell an adult; rinse a cut gently with water. In science experiments, rinse equipment between tests so results are fair.

examples

• Rinse the soap off your hands. tree →
• Rinse the apples before you eat them. tree →
• Rinse your mouth with water after the dentist. tree →
• If you get shampoo in your eyes, rinse them with water. tree →
• Give the cup a quick rinse. tree →
• Rinse the test tube before the next experiment. tree →
• Rinse a graze gently under the tap. tree →
• See, the Pope flings the pieces back again into the water, washes and washes, rinses and rinses, and again puts them together bit by bit. tree →

note

Regular verb: rinsed, rinsing. «Rinse» is quick, with water only; «wash» usually means with soap. «Rinse out» = clean the inside (rinse out a bottle). Spelt -nse, not «rince».

In the corpora

• Grease does not dissolve in water; soap links grease and water so it can be rinsed away, and warm water helps.
• After pizza your fingers are greasy, and rinsing under the tap does almost nothing: water and grease do not mix.
• After dinner you rinse a tin, flatten a cereal box and drop a bottle into the right bin.
• Soap loosens dirt and germs so that water can rinse them away; water alone washes off much less.
• After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse straight away, so the fluoride keeps protecting the teeth.

Trees and pragmatics

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