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# peel

«peel» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take the skin off fruit or vegetables** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (peel, peels, peeled, peeling); noun (peel)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To peel is to take the skin off fruit or vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m1)

2) The peel is the skin, like a banana peel or orange peel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m2)

3) To peel can mean that a thin layer comes off by itself: paint peels, skin peels after sunburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m3)

4) To peel off a sticker is to pull it away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m4)

5) To peel can also mean to strip the bark off a tree or a stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: an action done to fruit; peels per minute; the weight of the peel taken away. In the kitchen: peeling potatoes and carrots with an adult. In science: skin peels after sunburn; old paint peels in the sun and rain. In stories: «Keep your eyes peeled» means watch carefully.

### examples

- She peels 6 potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x1)
- He peels 3 apples a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x2)
- The orange peel weighs 40 grams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x3)
- How many potatoes are peeled in 5 minutes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x4)
- Peel the banana before you eat it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x5)
- The paint on the old fence is peeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x6)
- My nose peeled after the sunburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x7)
- Peel off the sticker carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x8)
- Keep your eyes peeled for the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x9)
- He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x10)

### note

Peeling at a speed is a rate: total = rate × time. Peel weight is taken away from the whole fruit. Trap: peeled potatoes are still the same number of potatoes. «Peel» (the skin) is usually uncountable. Homophone: peal (the ringing of bells). Safety: use a peeler carefully and ask an adult; a banana peel on the floor is slippery.

### 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/)
- [Carving or peeling bark wounds a tree and lets in disease that can kill it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/229-gardens-and-forests/20/)
- [Oliver's nan calls police «bobbies» after Robert Peel, who set up London's police.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time/7/)
- [If a blister bursts, leave the loose skin in place and cover it, rather than peeling it off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/49-blisters-astro-burns-and-nosebleeds-mid-match/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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