stork
part of speech
noun (a stork, storks)
meaning for a pupil
A stork is a large bird with long legs, a long neck and a long straight beak, that wades in wet places and eats fish, frogs and insects. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons about animals and migration, white storks fly long distances between Europe and Africa each year and build huge nests on roofs and chimneys. In old stories and cartoons, a stork is said to bring babies to families; this is a fairy tale, not true.
examples
- A stork stood on one leg in the pond. tree →
- Storks build big nests on rooftops. tree →
- The stork caught a frog with its long beak. tree →
- Storks fly south for the winter. tree →
- In the cartoon, a stork carried the baby in a blanket. tree →
- The white stork has black feathers on its wings. tree →
- We saw storks on our holiday in Spain. tree →
- A stork's legs are long and red. tree →
note
Countable: a stork, storks. Myth: storks do not bring babies; it is an old story told to small children. Do not confuse with «stalk» (the stem of a plant) or «stalk» (to follow someone secretly), which sound similar.
In the corpora
- Storks come back to the same nest year after year and add new sticks, so old nests grow huge.
- Granny says a stork on the roof brings luck, and for many Ukrainians the stork stands for home and spring.
- Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their heads back and clattering their bills like a wooden toy.
- Warm air hardly rises over cold sea, so Ukrainian storks go round the Black Sea, not across it.
- White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills to greet each other, while chicks hiss and mew before they learn to clatter.
Trees and pragmatics
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