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# toy

«toy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thing children play with, like a doll, a ball, a teddy…** — 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, verb (toy, toys, toyed, toying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A toy is a thing children play with, like a doll, a ball, a teddy or a toy car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#m1)

2) Toy can describe a small model of a real thing: a toy train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#m2)

3) To toy with something is to play with it without much care or to think about an idea not very seriously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a thing counted, bought, sold, given and shared; the action word (gave, bought, sold, shared) tells the operation. Everyday: toy box, toy shop, soft toy, tidy up your toys. Safety: small toy parts are dangerous for babies.

### examples

- Sam has 18 toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x1)
- Each toy costs 4 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x2)
- He gave 5 toys to his sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x3)
- The shop sold 30 toys on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x4)
- Please put your toys back in the toy box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x5)
- We gave our old toys to the charity shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x6)
- Keep small toys away from the baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x7)
- She toyed with her food because she wasn't hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x8)
- Then the toys began to play at visiting, dancing, and fighting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toy/#x9)

### note

Countable: a toy, toys (not «toies»). The thing counted; the action word (gave, bought, sold, shared) tells the operation. Trap: none.

### In the corpora

- [Some toys have AI chatbots inside; a talking toy is still a toy, not a friend who lives in it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/11/)
- [Think of a toy train set next to a real railway.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/3/)
- [Toy Story, made by Pixar in 1995, was the first full-length film made entirely by computer animation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/9/)
- [Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/12/)
- [A Border collie called Chaser learned the names of over 1,000 toys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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