watchdog

«watchdog» in Mova's school dictionary: a dog kept to guard a house or farm and to bark at strangers — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (watchdogs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A watchdog is a dog kept to guard a house or farm and to bark at strangers. tree →

2) A watchdog can also be a person or group whose job is to check that rules are obeyed. tree →

sense in the lessons

the guard dog of a farm or house, who keeps thieves and wolves away by barking

examples

• Are you taking the place of the watchdog? tree →
• The dog barked like a real watchdog: «Bow, wow, wow!» tree →
• If we had only had a fierce watchdog, he would have kept them away. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

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