shadow

«shadow» in Mova's school dictionary: a dark shape made on a surface when something blocks the… — 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

noun (a shadow, shadows); verb (shadow, shadows, shadowed, shadowing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A shadow is a dark shape made on a surface when something blocks the light. tree →

2) Shadow is an area of darkness where light does not reach. tree →

3) To shadow someone is to follow them closely, often to learn their job. tree →

4) A shadow can also be a person who follows someone everywhere, staying close to them. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, shadows form because light travels in straight lines and cannot pass through opaque objects. Shadows are long in the morning and evening when the Sun is low and short at midday when it is high; the shadow is always on the side away from the light. Phrases: «in the shadow of», «without a shadow of a doubt» (completely sure), «afraid of your own shadow» (very timid).

examples

• My shadow follows me on a sunny day. tree →
• At noon our shadows are short. tree →
• We made animal shadows with our hands. tree →
• The cat sat in the shadow of the tree. tree →
• A shadow forms when light is blocked. tree →
• Shadows are longer in the evening. tree →
• The new pupil shadowed a buddy on her first day. tree →
• Without a shadow of a doubt, she is the fastest runner. tree →
• Will you go with me, as shadow? tree →

note

Countable: a shadow, shadows. Do not confuse «shadow» with «shade»: shade is a cool area out of the sun (sit in the shade); a shadow is the dark shape of a particular thing. Transparent things (clear glass) make almost no shadow.

In the corpora

• Hints such as sounds, shadows and strange details make readers imagine the worst, which is often scarier than any description.
• "A shadow on the lung" means a mark on an X-ray that may be a tumour in the lung.
• Pythagoras studied triangles, Archimedes discovered how things float and shouted Eureka, and Eratosthenes measured the size of the Earth with shadows.
• Light travels in straight lines and cannot bend round you, so your body leaves a shadow where it blocks the sunlight.
• On a cloudy day light comes from all over the sky, so shadows are faint or missing.

Trees and pragmatics

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