brew
verb (brew, brews, brewed, brewing); noun (a brew, brews)
Everyday
- To make beer by soaking, boiling and fermenting grain. tree →
- To make tea or coffee by mixing it with hot water. tree →
- (noun, UK, informal) A cup of tea: «fancy a brew?» tree →
- (verb) Of something bad, to be about to happen: a storm is brewing, trouble is brewing. tree →
- (noun) A mixture, especially a strange one, like a witch's brew. tree →
In the lessons
In everyday UK and Irish talk, «put a brew on» means make a cup of tea. In stories, witches stir a brew in a cauldron, and trouble brews before a fight. In science, brewing uses yeast to turn sugar into alcohol and gas.
Examples
- Gran brewed a pot of tea. tree →
- Fancy a brew? I'll put the kettle on. tree →
- The witches stirred their bubbling brew. tree →
- Dark clouds showed a storm was brewing. tree →
- I could tell trouble was brewing in the playground. tree →
- Monks used to brew beer in the abbey. tree →
- The moor-woman was at her brewing. tree →
Note
Regular verb: brewed. «A brew» meaning tea is UK/Ireland/Australia informal. Beer is for adults only.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «brew» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «brew» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/brew/