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# boomerang

«boomerang» in Mova's school dictionary: **A curved, flat piece of wood that comes back to you when…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a boomerang, boomerangs); verb (boomerang, boomerangs, boomeranged, boomeranging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A curved, flat piece of wood that comes back to you when you throw it the right way, first made by Aboriginal Australians. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boomerang/#m1)

2) (verb) To come back to the place it started; to have the opposite effect from what was intended, often hurting the person who did it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boomerang/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In Australian history and culture lessons, boomerangs were used for hunting, sport and ceremonies by Aboriginal peoples, and not all of them return. In science, a boomerang returns because of spinning and air flow (lift). In stories, a mean plan «boomerangs» on the bully.

### examples

- He threw the boomerang and it flew back to him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boomerang/#x1)
- Aboriginal hunters used boomerangs for thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boomerang/#x2)
- His trick boomeranged and he got into trouble himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boomerang/#x3)
- Not all boomerangs come back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boomerang/#x4)
- Throwing a boomerang takes practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boomerang/#x5)
- The rumour boomeranged back to her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boomerang/#x6)

### note

Countable. Safety: throw boomerangs only in big open spaces, away from people. Trap: only some types return; hunting boomerangs often do not.

### Trees and pragmatics

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