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# lull

«lull» in Mova's school dictionary: **to soothe someone into calm or sleep, often with soft sounds** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (lulls, lulled, lulling); noun (lulls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To lull is to soothe someone into calm or sleep, often with soft sounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lull/#m1)

2) A lull is a short quiet time between noisy or busy times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lull/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in lullabies a mother lulls a baby to sleep; in stories a giant is lulled by music

### examples

- The song lulled the baby to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lull/#x1)
- We had a lull in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lull/#x2)
- There was a lull in the wind before dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lull/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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