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# paring

«paring» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thin strip peeled or cut off the skin of a fruit or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (parings)

### meaning for a pupil

A paring is a thin strip peeled or cut off the skin of a fruit or vegetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paring/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a pig grubbing in a trough for potato parings; in cooking, the bits of peel left over

### examples

- The pig ate the potato parings from the trough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paring/#x1)
- Save the apple parings for the compost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paring/#x2)
- She swept up the cabbage parings from the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paring/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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