smell
part of speech
verb (smell, smells, smelled/smelt, smelling); noun (a smell, smells; smell — the sense)
meaning for a pupil
1) To notice something with your nose. tree →
2) To give off a smell: "The flowers smell sweet." tree →
3) To have a bad smell: "Your socks smell!" tree →
4) As a noun, what you notice with your nose: "a smell of smoke". tree →
5) As a noun, the sense of smelling. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, smell is one of the five senses; the nose sends signals to the brain; dogs smell far better than people. In safety: a smell of smoke, gas (rotten eggs) or burning means danger — get out and tell an adult; bad-smelling food may be spoiled. Phrases: smell good/bad, sense of smell, smell a rat (suspect a trick).
examples
- I can smell cookies baking. tree →
- Roses smell lovely. tree →
- Dogs have a great sense of smell. tree →
- If you smell gas, get out and tell an adult. tree →
- The milk smells bad, so don't drink it. tree →
- There's a smell of smoke in the kitchen! tree →
- Smell this cheese. tree →
- I smell a rat. tree →
note
Past: "smelled" (American) or "smelt" (British). After "smell" use an adjective: "smells nice", not "smells nicely". Smell and taste work together; with a blocked nose food tastes of less.
In the corpora
- Supermarkets are designed to make people buy more than they planned, with offers, smells and treats by the tills.
- A chatbot has no body, so it cannot taste chocolate, smell flowers or feel tired.
- Elephants have a superb sense of smell and more smell genes than dogs, and lift the trunk to catch scents on the wind.
- Most bears are omnivores, and their sense of smell is many times better than a dog's.
- A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell receptors, while a human nose has about 5 or 6 million.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «smell» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.