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# embark

«embark» in Mova's school dictionary: **to go on board a ship or aircraft to start a journey** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (embark, embarks, embarked, embarking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To embark is to go on board a ship or aircraft to start a journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embark/#m1)

2) (embark on) To embark on something is to start something new and big, such as a long task or quest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embark/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, people go on board a ship to set sail; a hero embarks on a quest to start a long journey

### examples

- The sailors embark at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embark/#x1)
- We embarked on the ferry to the island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embark/#x2)
- She embarked on a long journey to find her brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embark/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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