wing

«wing» in Mova's school dictionary: the part of a bird, bat or plane that lets it fly — 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 (wings); verb (wings, winging, winged)

meaning for a pupil

1) A wing is the part of a bird, bat or plane that lets it fly. tree →

2) To wing or to wing one's way is to fly or travel quickly, as a bird does. tree →

sense in the lessons

the part of a bird or flying creature used to fly; in stories a messenger is winging his way to the king

examples

• The eagle spread its wings. tree →
• The swallow is winging its way south. tree →
• Each bird has two wings. tree →
• The message came winging across the sea. tree →

note

A bird has 2 wings, so 5 birds have 10 wings

In the corpora

• A dragonfly has 6 legs and 4 wings, like many insects.
• Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying.
• All birds have two wings and two legs; most have four toes on each foot, but the ostrich has only two.
• A hoverfly has one pair of wings and can hover still in the air, while a wasp has two pairs.
• Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across.

Trees and pragmatics

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