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# fence

«fence» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wall of wood, metal or wire around a garden or field** — 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 (fence, fences); verb (fence, fences, fenced, fencing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fence is a wall of wood, metal or wire around a garden or field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#m1)

2) To fence something in is to put a fence around it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#m2)

3) Fencing is a sport of fighting with long thin swords. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#m3)

4) A fence can also be a strong defence or protection against harm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a place where birds and storks sit, or a thing built and measured in feet or metres; the length of fence round a field is its perimeter; phrases: «on the fence», «garden fence», «fence posts», «sit on the fence» (not choose a side)

### examples

- 3 birds were sitting on the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x1)
- He built a fence 40 feet long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x2)
- The fence has 12 posts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x3)
- How many more birds than storks are on the fence? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x4)
- The cat jumped over the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x5)
- How much fence goes round a field 10 metres by 5 metres? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x6)
- Dad painted the fence green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x7)
- Don't climb the fence; it is not safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x8)
- "Ho, thou firm fence of mine, be thou divided! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fence/#x9)

### note

A place, not usually counted. Trap: the things on the fence are counted, not the fence; a fence's length may be a measure in feet. Trap: a straight fence with N gaps needs N + 1 posts.

### In the corpora

- [Neighbours sometimes disagree about hedges, fences, noise or rubbish, and most disputes are solved by a friendly chat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/10/)
- [Grown-ups love swapping it over the fence, and a lot of it is harmless fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/1/)
- [Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/16/)
- [In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/5/)
- [Some farmers smear fences with chilli and grease or burn chilli bricks, because chilli stings elephants' sensitive trunks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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