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# busily

«busily» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a busy way: working hard and actively at something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (busily; more busily, most busily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a busy way: working hard and actively at something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#m1)

2) While being very occupied with a task. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A how-word used in stories to show characters hard at work: bees, ants, cooks, the Rat packing a picnic basket. It often goes with verbs like work, write, chatter, bustle. Phrases: «busily engaged in», «busily at work».

### examples

- The bees buzzed busily from flower to flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#x1)
- Mum was busily packing for the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#x2)
- The pupils wrote busily until the bell rang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#x3)
- The Rat busily packed the lunch basket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#x4)
- Ants busily carried crumbs back to their nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#x5)
- The shop assistant was busily stacking shelves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#x6)
- Everyone chatted busily before the show began. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#x7)
- They entered a glovemaker's shop, where a woman sat sewing busily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/busily/#x8)

### note

Formed from «busy» by changing y to i and adding «-ly»: busy → busily (like happy → happily). Pronounced BIZ-i-lee; the «u» in busy sounds like «i».

### In the corpora

- [The garden has a large rose-tree with white roses, and three gardeners are «busily painting them red».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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