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# oak

«oak» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big tree with hard wood that can live for hundreds of…** — 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 (oak, oaks; also oak tree); adjective (made of oak)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An oak is a big tree with hard wood that can live for hundreds of years. Its nuts are called acorns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#m1)

2) Oak is the strong wood from this tree, used for furniture and floors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

trees counted; heights, acorns, rows of trees; in science: oaks lose their leaves in autumn, acorns grow into new oaks, many insects and birds live in an oak; in stories: a great old oak in the forest; saying: «great oaks from little acorns grow» (big things start small)

### examples

- The park has 14 oaks and 9 pines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x1)
- The oak is 20 metres tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x2)
- A squirrel hides 30 acorns from the oak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x3)
- They plant oaks in 4 rows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x4)
- The old oak tree is over 300 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x5)
- This table is made of oak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x6)
- Oak leaves have wavy edges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x7)
- Great oaks from little acorns grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x8)
- ‘I did; this old wide-spreading oak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oak/#x9)

### note

A thing counted; trap: when asked for all trees, add oaks to the other trees. «An oak» (an before a vowel sound). As wood, «oak» is uncountable (made of oak).

### In the corpora

- [Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/9/)
- [Here is the surprise: a huge oak does not eat soil to grow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/5/)
- [The hairs of some caterpillars, such as the oak processionary, cause rashes, so you do not touch hairy caterpillars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/19/)
- [Burning poison ivy or oak sends the oil into the smoke, which can hurt your lungs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/25/)
- [And upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.45/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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