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# plank

«plank» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, flat piece of wood** — 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 (plank, planks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A plank is a long, flat piece of wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#m1)

2) The plank is also an exercise where you hold your body straight like a board, resting on your arms and toes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#m2)

3) A plank can be one main idea of a plan, as in a political plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: pieces of wood counted, cut or measured; length of planks; cutting into equal pieces. In building and D&T (design and technology): making shelves, bridges, treehouses. In PE: holding a plank for 30 seconds. In stories: pirates make prisoners «walk the plank».

### examples

- A plank is 6 meters long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x1)
- He cuts the plank into 3 equal pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x2)
- They need 20 planks for the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x3)
- Each plank costs 4 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x4)
- We laid a plank across the stream to cross it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x5)
- Hold the plank for 30 seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x6)
- In the story, the pirates made him walk the plank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x7)
- Dad nailed the planks together to make a treehouse floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x8)
- The lovely Helena steps across the plank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plank/#x9)

### note

Cutting into equal pieces = divide. Planks laid end to end = add lengths. Trap: the number of cuts is one less than the number of pieces. Safety: carry long planks with care and watch for splinters and nails.

### In the corpora

- ["Thick as two short planks" means very stupid; it is a British joke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/6/)
- [He lay stiff as a plank for an hour, then sprinted to his parents' room so fast he hit the door frame.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/1/)
- [Jesus said to take the plank out of your own eye before taking the speck out of your brother's eye.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/17/)
- [A beam bridge is a plank resting on supports.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/2/)
- [When a plank or beam bends under a load, its top is squashed and its bottom is stretched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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