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# rear

«rear» in Mova's school dictionary: **The back part of something: "the rear of the bus"** — 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 (the rear); adjective (rear); verb (rear, rears, reared, rearing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The back part of something: "the rear of the bus". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#m1)

2) As an adjective, at the back: "the rear door", "rear lights". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#m2)

3) To rear children or animals means to look after them until they are grown up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#m3)

4) When a horse rears, it stands up on its back legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#m4)

5) To rear something can also mean to lift it up high and build it in place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, cars and bikes have rear lights; children sit in the rear seats of a car. In science, farmers rear animals like sheep and chickens. In stories a frightened horse rears. Phrases: at the rear, rear seat, rear light, rear view mirror, rear up, bring up the rear.

### examples

- Children should sit in the rear seat of the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#x1)
- We got off by the rear door of the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#x2)
- My bike has a red rear light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#x3)
- The teacher walked at the rear of the line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#x4)
- The farmer rears sheep and goats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#x5)
- The horse reared up when it saw the snake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#x6)
- Swans rear their young on the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#x7)
- The marble block was reared in its place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rear/#x8)

### note

As a noun usually "the rear". Opposite of rear: "front". "Bring up the rear" means to be last. Safety: a red light at the rear of a bike helps drivers see you at night. In the USA "raise" is more common than "rear" for children.

### In the corpora

- [The frightened old horse rears and backs, and drags the cart into the deep ditch: crash!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/0/)
- [A rear-facing baby seat is never put in front of an active airbag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/16/)
- [Children sit in the back, and a rear-facing baby seat never goes in front of an active airbag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/11/)
- [And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mount.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.770/)
- ['On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1229/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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