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# tress

«tress» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long lock or strand of hair, especially one that hangs…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (tresses)

### meaning for a pupil

A tress is a long lock or strand of hair, especially one that hangs down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tress/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a princess or maiden has long tresses of hair; one tress is one lock

### examples

- She combed her long golden tresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tress/#x1)
- A tress of hair fell across her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tress/#x2)
- The girl cut off just one tress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tress/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; if a problem counts tresses, each tress counts as one.

### Trees and pragmatics

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