roar

«roar» in Mova's school dictionary: to make a very loud, deep sound like a lion — 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 (roar, roars, roared, roaring); noun (a roar, roars)

meaning for a pupil

1) To roar is to make a very loud, deep sound like a lion. tree →

2) A roar is that loud, deep sound, or the loud noise of a crowd, engine, wind or sea. tree →

3) To roar with laughter is to laugh very loudly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons lions and tigers roar; in stories dragons and monsters roar. In everyday life crowds roar at matches and engines roar. Phrases: «roar with laughter», «the roar of the crowd», «a roaring fire».

examples

• The lion roared at the zoo. tree →
• The crowd roared when we scored. tree →
• We heard the roar of the waterfall. tree →
• Dad roared with laughter at the joke. tree →
• The plane roared over our heads. tree →
• We sat by a roaring fire. tree →
• The dragon gave a terrible roar. tree →

note

Past: «roared». Do not confuse with «raw» (uncooked), which sounds similar in many accents. «A roaring success» means a very big success.

In the corpora

• Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or prusten; they can roar too, but chuffing is for friends.
• Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead.
• The Rat lights a roaring fire and sets the Mole dusting.
• Jaguar roars for his Mother.
• Today experts say even more simply: when thunder roars, go indoors.

Trees and pragmatics

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