towel

«towel» in Mova's school dictionary: a piece of thick soft cloth or paper used to dry your… — 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 towel, towels); verb (towel, towels, towelled/toweled, towelling/toweling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A towel is a piece of thick soft cloth or paper used to dry your body, hands or dishes. tree →

2) To towel (off) is to dry yourself with a towel. tree →

sense in the lessons

In hygiene, use your own towel, dry hands well after washing (germs spread more on wet hands), and wash towels often. At the beach and pool, bring a towel; in the kitchen, «tea towel» (UK) or «dish towel» (US) dries dishes; «paper towels» wipe spills. Phrases: «throw in the towel» (give up), «beach towel», «bath towel», «hand towel».

examples

• Dry your hands on the towel. tree →
• Don't forget your towel for swimming. tree →
• Hang your wet towel up to dry. tree →
• Use a paper towel to wipe the spill. tree →
• Grandma dried the plates with a tea towel. tree →
• Lie on your beach towel in the shade. tree →
• Don't share towels when you have a cold. tree →
• The tired boxer threw in the towel. tree →

note

Countable. Said «TOW-ul» (rhymes with «vowel»). British: towelled; American: toweled. «Throw in the towel» is an idiom from boxing.

In the corpora

• Towels can spread germs and skin infections, so everyone uses their own.
• Red, sticky, itchy eyes may be conjunctivitis, which spreads easily, so you tell a parent and do not share towels.
• Dishes should be dried with a clean dry towel, because dishes put away wet can go mouldy.
• A boy in Leeds put a towel over a heater to dry it; it started to burn and filled the room with smoke.
• Clothes or towels on heaters can catch fire.

Trees and pragmatics

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