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# mopping

«mopping» in Mova's school dictionary: **cleaning a floor with a mop and water** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (-ing of mop: mop, mops, mopped, mopping); noun (mopping, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mopping is cleaning a floor with a mop and water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#m1)

2) Mopping can mean wiping something such as sweat or tears with a cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#m2)

3) "Mopping up" means cleaning up spilled liquid or finishing the last parts of a job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, a wet floor after mopping is slippery, so people put up a "Wet floor" sign. Phrases: "mop up", "mopping the floor", "mopping his brow" (wiping sweat from the forehead).

### examples

- Mum is mopping the kitchen floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#x1)
- Careful, I've just finished mopping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#x2)
- The caretaker was mopping up the spilled paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#x3)
- He kept mopping his brow in the heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#x4)
- We spent the afternoon mopping up after the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#x5)
- Mopping is easier with warm water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#x6)
- "No," answered Uncle Remus, mopping his benign features with a very large and very red bandana. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mopping/#x7)

### note

Double p: mop, mopped, mopping. A "Wet floor" sign warns that the floor has just been mopped and is slippery.

### Trees and pragmatics

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