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# driftwood

«driftwood» in Mova's school dictionary: **pieces of wood that the sea or a river has carried and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (driftwood, no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

pieces of wood that the sea or a river has carried and left on the shore [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driftwood/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales the wood that washes up on the beach and is used for a fire

### examples

- We found driftwood along the shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driftwood/#x1)
- The children built a fire with driftwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driftwood/#x2)
- The waves left driftwood on the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driftwood/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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