shay

«shay» in Mova's school dictionary: a first name, used for boys and girls, from the Irish… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a shay, shays — old); a name (Shay)

meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Shay is a first name, used for boys and girls, from the Irish name Séamus or Séaghdha; it is also a surname. tree →

2) (old-fashioned) A shay is a light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse, a word made from «chaise». tree →

3) (rare) It can be a spelling of «shae» or «Shea», other names. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and maths word problems Shay is usually just a character's name: «Shay ran 3 km.» In old poems and history books a «shay» is a carriage, as in the poem «The Deacon's Masterpiece, or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay». It is not a common everyday English word today.

examples

• Shay is the captain of our football team. tree →
• Shay has 15 marbles and gives away 6. tree →
• My cousin Shay lives in Galway. tree →
• The farmer drove to town in his one-horse shay. tree →
• In the old poem, the shay fell apart all at once. tree →
• Shay and Amelia are partners in the science project. tree →
• A shay was a light carriage for one or two people. tree →
• Shay's dad is a firefighter. tree →

note

As a name, write it with a capital S: Shay. Pronounced «shay», rhyming with «day». The carriage meaning is old and rare. Do not confuse with «Shea» or «Shae», other spellings of names, or with «chez» (French for «at the home of»).

In the corpora

• Shay lives in a children's home in Dublin with five other kids and the staff.
• And then there's Shay, who lives in a children's home.
• His friend Niall asks Bríd, Shay's key worker, «Can Shay come to my party?

Trees and pragmatics

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