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# cave

«cave» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large hole in the side of a hill or cliff or under the…** — 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 (cave, caves); verb (cave in, caves in, caved in, caving in)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cave is a large hole in the side of a hill or cliff or under the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#m1)

2) To cave in is to fall down inwards, like a roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#m2)

3) To cave in can also mean to stop arguing and agree because of pressure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons caves form when water slowly dissolves rock such as limestone; stalactites hang down and stalagmites grow up. Bats and early people lived in caves; cave paintings show ancient art. In safety lessons: never go into caves without an adult and guide, because of floods, dark, and falls. Phrases: cave in, cave painting, cave man, cave explorer.

### examples

- Bats sleep in the cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#x1)
- Early people painted animals on cave walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#x2)
- Water made this cave over thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#x3)
- Don't go into caves without a guide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#x4)
- The roof of the old mine caved in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#x5)
- We used torches to explore the cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#x6)
- After an hour of begging, Dad caved in and bought the ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#x7)
- He strode resolutely into the cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cave/#x8)

### note

Countable noun (caves). Regular verb (caved). Memory trick: stalactites hang tight from the ceiling (c), stalagmites grow up from the ground (g). Exploring caves for sport is called caving (UK) or spelunking (US).

### In the corpora

- [In some caves dwarf crocodiles have turned orange, possibly from living among bat droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/8/)
- [Ringed seals dig snow caves on the ice to hide their pups and keep breathing holes open by scratching the ice with strong claws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/11/)
- [Cave swiftlets are among the very few birds that echolocate, and some swiftlets build nests from their own saliva.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave/9/)
- [Cave crickets have very long legs and feelers because in the dark touch is more useful than sight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave/10/)
- [Hunters lived there too: cave lions, cave hyenas that dragged bones to their dens, and people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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