thief

«thief» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who steals: takes things that belong to someone… — 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 thief, thieves)

meaning for a pupil

A person who steals: takes things that belong to someone else without asking. tree →

sense in the lessons

In lessons about right and wrong and safety, pupils learn that stealing hurts people, and how to keep things safe from thieves. In stories, thieves are often caught by clever detectives. Phrases: car thief, catch a thief, like a thief in the night, stop thief!

examples

• The thief took the bike from the garden. tree →
• Police caught the thief on camera. tree →
• "Stop, thief!" shouted the shopkeeper. tree →
• Lock your bike so a thief cannot take it. tree →
• In the story, the thief was a magpie. tree →
• A thief stole Grandma's handbag. tree →

note

Plural: "thieves" (f changes to ves). The verb is "steal", the crime is "theft". Spelling: "ie" in "thief". Safety: if a thief takes something from you, do not chase them; tell an adult or the police.

In the corpora

• Was he found among thieves?
• When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.
• Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
• Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.
• The murderer riseth with the light, to kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.

Trees and pragmatics

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