shirt

«shirt» in Mova's school dictionary: a piece of clothing for the top of the body, often with… — 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 (shirt, shirts)

meaning for a pupil

1) A shirt is a piece of clothing for the top of the body, often with sleeves, a collar and buttons. tree →

2) A T-shirt is a soft shirt with short sleeves and no buttons. tree →

3) A sports shirt (jersey) shows a team's colors. tree →

sense in the lessons

a thing counted, bought, sold or washed; often with a price; school uniforms often have white shirts; phrases «T-shirt», «tuck in your shirt», «keep your shirt on» (stay calm)

examples

• He bought 4 shirts. tree →
• Each shirt costs 12 dollars. tree →
• She has 6 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. tree →
• How many shirts did he wash? tree →
• Tuck in your shirt for the photo. tree →
• My T-shirt has a dinosaur on it. tree →
• The team shirts are blue and white. tree →
• He spilled juice on his shirt. tree →
• Each shirt has 6 buttons. tree →
• Fold your shirts and put them in the drawer. tree →

note

A thing counted; with a price per shirt, multiply. Trap: shirts and pants may be counted together as clothes. A shirt is one thing, but «pants» and «trousers» are a pair word.

In the corpora

• Squash a blueberry on your T-shirt and the purple mark refuses to wash out.
• Clean glasses with water and a soft cloth, not your T-shirt, because rough cloth scratches the lenses.
• An old shirt or apron protects your clothes from paint, which stains.
• One ugly shirt was 70% off; everything else was 10%.
• A sweater, a coat, a shirt with long sleeves — each has 2 sleeves, one for each arm.

Trees and pragmatics

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