vase

«vase» in Mova's school dictionary: a container, often tall and pretty, for holding flowers… — 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 (vase, vases)

meaning for a pupil

1) A vase is a container, often tall and pretty, for holding flowers in water. tree →

2) A vase can also be an ornament that stands on its own. tree →

sense in the lessons

a place or container: flowers in a vase; flowers shared equally into vases; in art, a vase is often drawn in a still life

examples

• There were 6 roses in the vase. tree →
• She put 24 flowers into 4 vases equally. tree →
• Each vase holds 5 flowers. tree →
• How many flowers are in the vase now? tree →
• Fill the vase with water. tree →
• The cat knocked over the vase. tree →
• Grandma's vase is very old. tree →
• He painted a vase of sunflowers. tree →
• The glass vase broke into pieces. tree →
• She put the tulips in a blue vase. tree →
• Why, I did not even know that the vase had olives in it! tree →

note

A container: «into N vases equally» divides, «each vase holds N» multiplies. Trap: vases are not the flowers. Americans often say «vayss», Britons «vahz».

In the corpora

• Example: a boy in Vancouver knocks over his grandma's vase.
• She is sad about the vase but proud of him for telling her.
• Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend.
• Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend.
• Owen's ball knocked the vase over, and he said his little sister did it.

Trees and pragmatics

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