umbrella
part of speech
noun (umbrella, umbrellas)
meaning for a pupil
1) An umbrella is a cover of cloth on a folding frame and stick that keeps you dry in the rain. tree →
2) A beach umbrella or sun umbrella keeps off the sun. tree →
3) An umbrella term or group covers many smaller things together. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: things counted or bought at a price; how many are left after selling. In everyday life: a rainy day, a beach umbrella, sharing an umbrella. In stories: Mary Poppins flies with her umbrella. Phrases: «put up an umbrella», «under an umbrella», «umbrella stand».
examples
- An umbrella costs 9 dollars. tree →
- The shop sold 14 umbrellas. tree →
- She has 3 umbrellas. tree →
- How many umbrellas are left? tree →
- Take an umbrella, it's going to rain. tree →
- We sat in the shade of a beach umbrella. tree →
- Mary Poppins floated down holding her umbrella. tree →
- The wind turned my umbrella inside out. tree →
- Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's. tree →
note
«An umbrella» (it starts with a vowel sound). Some people say opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck — that is only a superstition. Maths: thing counted; no clue to the operation; left = start − sold.
In the corpora
- Wild orangutans hold big leaves over their heads like umbrellas, and zoo orangutans use sacks and blankets the same way.
- A squirrel's bushy tail helps it balance and works as a blanket and an umbrella.
- Orangutans make umbrellas and roofs from big leaves, learning from their mothers, with whom they stay for about 7 or 8 years.
- His cap is missing from its peg and his new goloshes from beside the umbrella-stand.
- Water, sand and snow reflect UV, so you can burn even under an umbrella or on a ski slope.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «umbrella» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.