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# apron

«apron» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a piece of cloth you tie over the front of your clothes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an apron, aprons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An apron is a piece of cloth you tie over the front of your clothes to keep them clean while cooking, painting or working. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#m1)

2) At an airport, the apron is the area where planes park and are loaded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#m2)

3) The apron of a stage is the part in front of the curtain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means a kind of clothing or wrap that the women of Jerusalem wore. It is one of the many finery items Isaiah lists. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and at school, children wear aprons for cooking, baking, painting and science experiments. Chefs, bakers and blacksmiths wear aprons. Phrases: put on an apron, tie your apron, a painting apron.

### examples

- the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles; (Prophets ISA.3.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x1)
- Put on your apron before you start painting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x2)
- The baker's apron was covered in flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x3)
- Grandma tied her apron and began to cook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x4)
- We wore aprons in the science lab. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x5)
- My apron has a big pocket at the front. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x6)
- The planes waited on the apron at the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x7)
- Dad's apron says Best Cook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x8)
- ‘What have you got in your apron?’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x9)

### note

Countable noun; use an: an apron. Old phrase: tied to someone's apron strings means too dependent on a parent. Safety: tie long aprons so they don't catch on things in the kitchen.

### In the corpora

- [the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.78/)
- [Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so artists wear old clothes or aprons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/16/)
- [For his money Toad gets «a cotton print gown, an apron, a shawl, and a rusty black bonnet».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/18/)
- [An old shirt or apron protects your clothes from paint, which stains.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «apron» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.