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# callus

«callus» in Mova's school dictionary: **a patch of hard, thick skin on your hands or feet, made…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a callus, calluses); verb (callus, callused — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A callus is a patch of hard, thick skin on your hands or feet, made by rubbing or pressing again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/callus/#m1)

2) (science) A callus is also the hard lump that forms around a broken bone as it heals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/callus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and health: gymnasts, guitar players and walkers get calluses; in science, how skin protects itself and how bones heal; it shows hard work or practice in stories.

### examples

- Playing guitar gives you calluses on your fingertips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/callus/#x1)
- The gymnast had calluses on her hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/callus/#x2)
- Walking barefoot can make calluses on your feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/callus/#x3)
- The farmer's hands were rough with calluses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/callus/#x4)
- A callus forms around a broken bone as it heals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/callus/#x5)

### note

Plural: calluses. Homophone trap: «callous» (adjective) means unkind and uncaring, as in «a callous remark». Not the same as a blister (a bubble of fluid).

### In the corpora

- [Skin even fights back against rubbing: a blister cushions a sore spot, and a guitarist's fingertips grow thick hard calluses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/4/)
- [Rubbing makes skin grow thicker into calluses, which protect it; barefoot runners grow thick soles that protect like shoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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