woof

«woof» in Mova's school dictionary: the sound a dog makes when it barks, written as a word — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

interjection (woof); noun (a woof, woofs); verb (woof, woofs, woofed, woofing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Woof is the sound a dog makes when it barks, written as a word. tree →

2) A woof is one bark. tree →

3) To woof is to bark like a dog. tree →

4) (weaving, also «weft») The woof is the set of threads that run across a piece of woven cloth. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and picture books, «Woof!» shows a dog barking; it is an example of onomatopoeia (a word that sounds like the noise) in English lessons. In design and technology lessons on weaving, the warp threads go up and down and the woof (weft) threads go across. Phrases: «woof woof», «warp and woof».

examples

• «Woof! Woof!» barked the puppy. tree →
• The dog gave a happy woof when we came home. tree →
• The big dog woofed at the postman. tree →
• «Woof» is an onomatopoeia, like «meow» and «moo». tree →
• In weaving, the woof goes over and under the warp. tree →
• My baby sister says «woof» every time she sees a dog. tree →
• ‘Shuttle, weave both web and woof, Bring my love beneath my roof.’ tree →

note

Interjection, often written with an exclamation mark. Different languages write dog barks differently (for example «wau» in German). «Woof» meaning cloth threads is old-fashioned; «weft» is more common. Not to be confused with «wolf».

In the corpora

• Your dog is fast asleep on the rug, but its paws are paddling, its lips twitch and it gives tiny muffled woofs.

Trees and pragmatics

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