tiger

«tiger» in Mova's school dictionary: a very large wild cat with orange fur and black stripes… — 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 tiger, tigers; tigress for a female)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tiger is a very large wild cat with orange fur and black stripes, which lives in Asia. tree →

2) A tiger can mean a fierce, brave or energetic person. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons the tiger is the biggest cat, a carnivore and a top predator; it lives in forests and grasslands of Asia, not Africa. Tigers are endangered because of hunting and habitat loss, so pupils learn about conservation. Each tiger's stripes are unique, like fingerprints. Unlike most cats, tigers like water and swim well. In stories (The Jungle Book's Shere Khan, The Tiger Who Came to Tea) the tiger is powerful. Phrases: «paper tiger», «tiger mother», «Bengal tiger», «tiger moth», «tiger shark».

examples

• The tiger crept through the long grass. tree →
• Tigers live in Asia, not Africa. tree →
• No two tigers have the same stripes. tree →
• The tiger cub played with its mother's tail. tree →
• Tigers are endangered animals. tree →
• Tigers are good swimmers. tree →
• We saw a Sumatran tiger at the zoo. tree →

note

Plural: tigers. Female: tigress; young: cub. Spelling: -er (US and UK). Trap: lions live in Africa (and a few in India); wild tigers live only in Asia. A tiger shark and a tiger moth are not tigers.

In the corpora

• Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres.
• Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or prusten; they can roar too, but chuffing is for friends.
• Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.
• Tiger stripes are on the skin as well as the fur, so a shaved tiger would still look striped.
• Tigers have bright white spots on the backs of their black ears, which may help cubs follow their mother and send signals.

Trees and pragmatics

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