sack
part of speech
noun (sack, sacks); verb (sack, sacks, sacked, sacking)
meaning for a pupil
1) A sack is a big strong bag for carrying things like potatoes, flour or coal. tree →
2) To sack someone is to tell them they no longer have their job; «get the sack» means lose your job. tree →
3) «Hit the sack» means go to bed. tree →
sense in the lessons
a container counting crops: sacks of oranges harvested each day; in games, a sack race; phrases «sack race», «a sack of potatoes», «hit the sack»
examples
- They harvest 74 sacks of oranges per day. tree →
- 71 sacks are of ripe oranges. tree →
- How many sacks after 51 days? tree →
- Each sack holds 20 pounds. tree →
- We had a sack race on sports day. tree →
- Santa carries a sack of toys. tree →
- The farmer lifted a sack of flour. tree →
- I'm tired, I'll hit the sack. tree →
- He got the sack for being late. tree →
- The old mill made sacks of grain. tree →
- The ostler was carrying a sack. tree →
note
A container and the thing counted. «sacks per day» × days. Trap: ripe and unripe sacks may be separate; read which is asked. A sack is bigger than a bag. «Sack» (fire from a job) is informal.
In the corpora
- An employment tribunal is a kind of court for work disputes, such as being sacked unfairly or not being paid what is owed.
- Wild orangutans hold big leaves over their heads like umbrellas, and zoo orangutans use sacks and blankets the same way.
- Long ago people traded by barter — swapping a sack of grain for a pair of shoes.
- We know not who put our money in our sacks.'
- Then they hastened, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sack» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.