saucer
part of speech
noun (a saucer, saucers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A saucer is a small, shallow plate that a cup stands on. tree →
2) A saucer is also anything round and flat like this («a flying saucer» is a story spaceship). tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life saucers catch drips from cups and are used under plant pots; in table manners, you put the cup back on the saucer. In stories «flying saucers» are alien spacecraft, and «eyes like saucers» means very wide eyes from surprise or fear. Phrases: «cup and saucer», «flying saucer», «eyes as big as saucers».
examples
- Put the cup back on its saucer. tree →
- The cat drank milk from a saucer. tree →
- Grandma uses her best cups and saucers for guests. tree →
- There is a saucer under the plant pot to catch the water. tree →
- His eyes went as big as saucers when he saw the present. tree →
- The film was about a flying saucer landing in a field. tree →
- I dropped a saucer and it broke. tree →
- Put a little water in a saucer for the bees. tree →
- Scrapefoot was very thirsty, and he began to drink out of the big saucer. tree →
note
Countable: «a saucer». Pronounced SAW-ser. From «sauce» (once used for sauces). Note: cats should not really drink cow's milk; water is better for them.
In the corpora
- And Tom's saucer of milk?
- Tom never catches Jerry, cartoon cats lap saucers of milk, and they always land on their feet.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «saucer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.