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# brook

«brook» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small stream of fresh water** — 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 (a brook, brooks); verb (brook, brooks, brooked, brooking — formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small stream of fresh water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#m1)

2) (formal, verb) To allow or put up with something, usually in the negative: «She would brook no argument» means she would not allow any argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons and stories a brook is a little stream running through fields and woods, smaller than a river. Poems often describe it «babbling». The verb sense is formal and found in older books: «brook no delay», «brook no interference». In The Wind in the Willows small brooks run down to the river.

### examples

- We jumped across the little brook in the meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#x1)
- The brook babbled over the stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#x2)
- Minnows swam in the clear brook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#x3)
- Cows drank from the brook at the bottom of the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#x4)
- The water from the brook flows into the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#x5)
- The teacher would brook no talking during the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#x6)
- Grandad would brook no nonsense at the dinner table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#x7)
- A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brook/#x8)

### note

Size order: brook / stream / creek (US, Australia) are small; river is big. The verb is formal and almost always used with «no» or «not». Brook is also a surname and a girl's name (often spelt Brooke).

### In the corpora

- [and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1251/)
- [Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.' And we went over the brook Zered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.59/)
- [From thence they journeyed unto Gudgod; and from Gudgod to Jotbah, a land of brooks of water. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.303/)
- [From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.437/)
- [The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.144/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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