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# musing

«musing» in Mova's school dictionary: **thinking quietly and slowly about something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (the -ing form of muse); noun (plural musings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Musing is thinking quietly and slowly about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/musing/#m1)

2) Musings are thoughts a person has while thinking quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/musing/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

describes a character lost in thought as he walks or sits in a story

### examples

- He walked on, musing on the strange affair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/musing/#x1)
- His musings kept him from noticing the time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/musing/#x2)
- Her musings were full of happy memories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/musing/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [My heart waxed hot within me; while I was musing, the fire kindled; then spoke I with my tongue:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.641/)
- [Let my musing be sweet unto Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1858/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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