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# salute

«salute» in Mova's school dictionary: **to raise your right hand to your forehead as a sign of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (salute, salutes, saluted, saluting); noun (a salute, salutes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To salute means to raise your right hand to your forehead as a sign of respect, as soldiers do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#m1)

2) A salute is that movement, or another sign of respect such as guns fired into the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#m2)

3) To salute someone means to praise them openly for something brave or good: "we salute our volunteers". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#m3)

4) (formal) To salute can mean to greet someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history the army, navy, scouts and guides salute flags and officers. In everyday speech "I salute you" means "well done, I admire you". Phrases: salute the flag, a 21-gun salute, give a salute, return a salute.

### examples

- The soldier saluted the general. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#x1)
- The scouts saluted the flag at the start of the meeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#x2)
- The captain returned the salute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#x3)
- Guns were fired as a salute to the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#x4)
- We salute all the nurses who worked so hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#x5)
- You finished the whole marathon? I salute you! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#x6)
- He gave a smart salute and marched away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#x7)
- Before starting your performance, salute your audience!” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salute/#x8)

### note

Past form: saluted. Noun and verb have the same form. Salute is pronounced "suh-LOOT". Do not confuse with "salt" or "solute" (a substance dissolved in a liquid, in science).

### In the corpora

- ["The one-finger salute" is a jokey name for raising the middle finger as an insult.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/8/)
- [And they will salute thee, and give thee two cakes of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.232/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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