wool
part of speech
noun (wool — uncountable; wools for kinds)
meaning for a pupil
1) Wool is the soft, thick hair of sheep and some other animals, like goats and alpacas. tree →
2) Wool is also the yarn or cloth made from this hair, spun into thread to make warm clothes like jumpers, hats and scarves. tree →
3) Steel wool is a pad of thin metal threads for scrubbing. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: a material measured in balls, grams or metres; wool used per scarf or per hat makes a rate. In science: wool keeps warmth in because it traps air; sheep are sheared once a year. In everyday life: knitting with wool, a wool jumper. Phrases: a ball of wool, knitting wool, made of wool, wool jumper, pull the wool over someone's eyes (trick them).
examples
- She has 5 balls of wool. tree →
- Each scarf needs 3 balls of wool. tree →
- A sheep gives 4 kg of wool a year. tree →
- She used 40 m of wool for a hat. tree →
- Grandma knitted me a wool jumper. tree →
- Farmers shear the sheep to get their wool. tree →
- Wool keeps you warm even when it is a little damp. tree →
- The kitten played with a ball of wool. tree →
note
Uncountable: «some wool», «a ball of wool». Adjectives: «woollen» (UK), «woolen» (US), «woolly». Say «wull». A material, not counted one by one; it comes in units (balls, kg, m). Uses per item make a rate.
In the corpora
- Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring.
- A sheep called Chris was found in Australia in 2015 after years lost in the bush, carrying over forty kilograms of wool.
- Only the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth eat wool clothes; most moths never touch clothes at all.
- They gave milk, wool, meat, eggs and muscle power, and let people settle in villages.
- A mouse wants crumbs, a cockroach wants dark damp corners, and a clothes moth's caterpillar wants your wool jumper.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wool» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.