apron

Everyday

1. An apron is a piece of cloth you tie over the front of your clothes to keep them clean while cooking, painting or working. tree →
2. At an airport, the apron is the area where planes park and are loaded. tree →
3. The apron of a stage is the part in front of the curtain. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life and at school, children wear aprons for cooking, baking, painting and science experiments. Chefs, bakers and blacksmiths wear aprons. Phrases: put on an apron, tie your apron, a painting apron.

Examples

• Put on your apron before you start painting. tree →
• The baker's apron was covered in flour. tree →
• Grandma tied her apron and began to cook. tree →
• We wore aprons in the science lab. tree →
• My apron has a big pocket at the front. tree →
• The planes waited on the apron at the airport. tree →
• Dad's apron says Best Cook. tree →
• ‘What have you got in your apron?’ tree →

Note

Countable noun; use an: an apron. Old phrase: tied to someone's apron strings means too dependent on a parent. Safety: tie long aprons so they don't catch on things in the kitchen.

In Jewish tradition

Here it means a kind of clothing or wrap that the women of Jerusalem wore. It is one of the many finery items Isaiah lists. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and at school, children wear aprons for cooking, baking, painting and science experiments. Chefs, bakers and blacksmiths wear aprons. Phrases: put on an apron, tie your apron, a painting apron.

Examples

• the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles; (Prophets ISA.3.22, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable noun; use an: an apron. Old phrase: tied to someone's apron strings means too dependent on a parent. Safety: tie long aprons so they don't catch on things in the kitchen.