sandbag

«sandbag» in Mova's school dictionary: a bag filled with sand, used to build walls against… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a sandbag, sandbags); verb (sandbag, sandbags, sandbagged, sandbagging)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sandbag is a bag filled with sand, used to build walls against floods or to make barriers. tree →

2) To sandbag a place is to protect it with sandbags. tree →

3) (informal, sport and games) To sandbag is to pretend to be weaker than you are so you can win later. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety and news: before floods, people put sandbags in front of doors. In maths: counting and weighing sandbags. In games, sandbagging is a sneaky trick. Phrases: «fill sandbags», «a wall of sandbags».

examples

• Volunteers filled sandbags before the flood. tree →
• We piled sandbags against the door. tree →
• Each sandbag weighs 15 kg; 10 sandbags weigh 150 kg. tree →
• Soldiers sheltered behind a wall of sandbags. tree →
• The town was sandbagged against the rising river. tree →
• Stop sandbagging — I know you can run faster! tree →

note

Double g in the verb: sandbagged, sandbagging. One word.

Trees and pragmatics

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