whisk

«whisk» in Mova's school dictionary: a kitchen tool made of curved wires, used to beat eggs or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a whisk, whisks); verb (whisk, whisks, whisked, whisking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A whisk is a kitchen tool made of curved wires, used to beat eggs or cream quickly. tree →

2) To whisk means to beat food fast with a whisk or fork to add air. tree →

3) To whisk someone or something away means to take them somewhere very quickly. tree →

4) A whisk can also be a quick, light flick or sweep, such as an animal swishing its tail. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking and food lessons, you whisk eggs for scrambled eggs and whisk egg whites until stiff for meringues; whisking traps air bubbles. In stories, a car whisks someone away, or a magic wind whisks the hero to another land. A cow whisks its tail to brush off flies.

examples

• Whisk the eggs and milk together. tree →
• Pass me the whisk, please. tree →
• Whisk the cream until it is thick. tree →
• A taxi whisked them away to the airport. tree →
• The magic carpet whisked Aladdin into the sky. tree →
• The horse whisked its tail at the flies. tree →
• And with this proud speech he gave a whisk of his long tail, and galloped away faster than before. tree →

note

Countable noun; regular verb: whisked. Electric whisk = a mixer. Do not confuse with whisky (a strong alcoholic drink) or whiskers.

In the corpora

• Cakes rise with baking powder or whisked eggs instead.
• Cakes rise without yeast, using baking powder or whisked eggs to trap gas that expands in the oven heat.
• Whisking cream traps air bubbles, held by fat droplets; whisking too long turns it lumpy and then into butter.

Trees and pragmatics

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