supine

«supine» in Mova's school dictionary: Lying flat on your back, face upwards — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (supine)

meaning for a pupil

1) Lying flat on your back, face upwards. tree →

2) (formal) Weak, lazy or too willing to accept things without protesting. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, PE and first-aid lessons: «supine position» = lying on your back (the opposite of «prone», lying face down). In the formal voice: a supine government does nothing. Phrases: «supine position», «lie supine».

examples

• The doctor asked the patient to lie supine on the bed. tree →
• In yoga, we lay supine and breathed slowly. tree →
• The opposite of supine is prone, lying face down. tree →
• The cat lay supine in the sun with its paws in the air. tree →
• The newspaper called the council supine for doing nothing about the potholes. tree →
• For this exercise, start in a supine position with your knees bent. tree →

note

Pronounced SOO-pine (or soo-PINE). Opposite: «prone» (face down). Memory trick: supine has «up» in it – face up. In first aid, an unconscious person who is breathing is usually put in the recovery position, not left supine.

Trees and pragmatics

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