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# smock

«smock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a loose outer garment, like a long overall, worn over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (smock, smocks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A smock is a loose outer garment, like a long overall, worn over other clothes to keep them clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smock/#m1)

2) (old use) A smock was a loose linen shirt worn by country people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smock/#m2)

3) In tales, a fine smock is a rich silk garment with gold embroidery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smock/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a fine smock is a rich garment; a man may hide a small animal under his smock.

### examples

- Painters wear a smock to keep paint off their clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smock/#x1)
- He hid the pig under his smock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smock/#x2)
- Eight silken smocks were embroidered with gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smock/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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