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# mew

«mew» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The soft, high crying sound a cat or kitten makes; to…** — 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

verb (mew, mews, mewed, mewing); noun (a mew, mews)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The soft, high crying sound a cat or kitten makes; to make this sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#m1)

2) The cry of a gull or other bird, especially the mew gull (a kind of seagull). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#m2)

3) (mews, UK) A row of old stables in a city, now turned into houses, or a small street with such houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Jewish law calls these birds unclean, so they are not kosher. The rabbis listed signs to tell which birds are allowed. In the primary lessons: In stories and everyday life, kittens mew when they are hungry; «miaow» or «meow» is the usual word for the sound. In the UK, a «mews» is a pretty, narrow street of small houses in cities like London. Phrases: mew softly, a mews house.

### examples

- and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds; (Torah LEV.11.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#x1)
- The kitten mewed for its mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#x2)
- We heard a tiny mew from under the shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#x3)
- Gulls mewed over the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#x4)
- My aunt lives in a mews in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#x5)
- The cat gave a sad little mew at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#x6)
- A mew gull is smaller than a herring gull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#x7)
- And then it mewed more than ever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mew/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: mewed, mewing. Compare: meow / miaow (louder, the usual word), purr (happy rumble), hiss (angry). «Mews» (street) is singular with an «s»: «a mews». Pronounced MYOO, like «mule» without the «l».

### In the corpora

- [and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.270/)
- [and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.416/)
- [White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills to greet each other, while chicks hiss and mew before they learn to clatter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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