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# asp

«asp» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, poisonous snake, found in hot countries and in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An asp is a small, poisonous snake, found in hot countries and in old stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asp/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fables and tales an asp is a snake that speaks or glides across the road

### examples

- The fox nearly stepped on an asp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asp/#x1)
- The asp slid quietly across the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asp/#x2)
- In the story the asp was clever and could talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asp/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.918/)
- [Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.950/)
- [Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1648/)
- [Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.511/)
- [He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.513/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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