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# apron

noun (an apron, aprons)

«apron» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#m1)
2. At an airport, the apron is the area where planes park and are loaded. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#m2)
3. The apron of a stage is the part in front of the curtain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#x1)
- The baker's apron was covered in flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#x2)
- Grandma tied her apron and began to cook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#x3)
- We wore aprons in the science lab. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#x4)
- My apron has a big pocket at the front. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#x5)
- The planes waited on the apron at the airport. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#x6)
- Dad's apron says Best Cook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#x7)
- ‘What have you got in your apron?’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/#x8)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/#x1)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «apron» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apron/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«apron» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/apron.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «apron» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/apron/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«apron» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/apron.html) on Mova free.