whip
part of speech
noun (a whip, whips); verb (whip, whips, whipped, whipping)
meaning for a pupil
1) A whip is a long thin rope or strip of leather with a handle, used to hit animals or, in the past, people. tree →
2) To whip means to hit with a whip. tree →
3) To whip cream or eggs means to beat them fast until they are thick and fluffy. tree →
4) To whip means to move or take something very fast: «She whipped out her phone.» tree →
5) (politics) A whip is a person in parliament who makes sure members of their party vote. tree →
6) (slang, US) A whip can mean a car. tree →
sense in the lessons
In cooking lessons, whipped cream; in history, enslaved people and convicts were whipped as cruel punishment. In stories, a horse rider cracks a whip. In UK politics, «chief whip». Phrases: «whip up» (make quickly), «whip round» (UK, collect money from a group).
examples
- Whip the cream until it is stiff. tree →
- He whipped round to see who was there. tree →
- The circus trainer cracked his whip. tree →
- Let's have a whip-round for the teacher's present. tree →
- Mum whipped up a quick lunch. tree →
- Prisoners were whipped in the past. tree →
- The whip lay on his lap. tree →
note
Past: whipped (double p). «Whipped cream» not «whip cream» in UK. Whipping people is now illegal in most countries.
In the corpora
- Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.
- A whip is the person in a party who tries to make sure its members vote the party way.
- smetAna is sour cream, put on borshch, vareNYky and pancakes; it is sour, not sweet like whipped cream.
- Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;
- A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «whip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.