sloth

«sloth» in Mova's school dictionary: a slow-moving animal from Central and South America that… — 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 sloth, sloths; uncountable sloth)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sloth is a slow-moving animal from Central and South America that hangs upside down in trees. tree →

2) Sloth is laziness (formal or old word). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons: sloths are mammals; they move very slowly and sleep many hours a day; algae can grow in their fur. In stories, «sloth» means laziness. Phrases: «as slow as a sloth», «three-toed sloth».

examples

• The sloth hung upside down from the branch. tree →
• Sloths move very slowly to save energy. tree →
• A sloth sleeps about 15 hours a day. tree →
• Green algae grow on the sloth's fur. tree →
• «Get up, you sloth!» said my sister. tree →
• In old stories, sloth is a bad habit. tree →

note

Countable for the animal; uncountable for laziness. Rhymes with «both» in the UK; also said like «cloth».

In the corpora

• Green algae grow in a sloth's fur and help to hide it among the leaves.
• A two-toed sloth has two claws on each front foot and three on each back foot.
• Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.
• Green algae grow in sloth fur and give camouflage among leaves, and moths live in the fur too.
• Three-toed sloths come down to the ground about once a week to poo, and algae and moths live in their fur.

Trees and pragmatics

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