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# ajar

«ajar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a door or window partly open, not shut and not wide open** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective or adverb (ajar, no forms)

### meaning for a pupil

Ajar means a door or window partly open, not shut and not wide open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ajar/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a door left ajar lets someone peep in or hear voices

### examples

- The back door stood ajar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ajar/#x1)
- Leave the window ajar so the room gets some air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ajar/#x2)
- Through the ajar door she heard sobbing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ajar/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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