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# jade

«jade» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hard green stone used to make jewellery and carvings** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (jade, uncountable; a jade); adjective (jade — colour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Jade is a hard green stone used to make jewellery and carvings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#m1)

2) Jade is also a green colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#m2)

3) (old) A jade was a worn-out horse; jaded means tired and bored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#m3)

4) Jade is a girl's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Science (rocks and minerals), history and art (Chinese jade carvings), colours, names.

### examples

- Grandma wears a jade bracelet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#x1)
- The museum has old Chinese jade carvings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#x2)
- She painted her room jade green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#x3)
- Jade is a very hard stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#x4)
- My friend Jade sits next to me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#x5)
- The jade statue shone in the light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#x6)
- So the Devil gave him that sorry jade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jade/#x7)

### note

Uncountable as a stone. Adjective «jaded» (tired of something) comes from the old horse meaning.

### Trees and pragmatics

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