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# manicure

noun (a manicure, manicures); verb (manicure, manicures, manicured, manicuring)

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

## Everyday

1. A beauty treatment for the hands and fingernails: cutting, shaping and often painting the nails. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#m1)
2. (verb) To give someone a manicure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#m2)
3. (adjective form: manicured) Very neat and carefully trimmed: a manicured lawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life people go to a nail salon for a manicure. In stories a «manicured lawn» or «manicured garden» tells the reader the place is very neat and probably rich. Phrases: have a manicure, get a manicure, manicure and pedicure.

### Examples

- Mum had a manicure before the wedding. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#x1)
- My sister painted my nails and called it a manicure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#x2)
- The salon offers manicures and pedicures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#x3)
- The palace had perfectly manicured lawns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#x4)
- He manicures his nails himself. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#x5)
- She got a sparkly manicure for her birthday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#x6)
- The hedges were neatly manicured. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#x7)
- A manicure takes about half an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manicure/#x8)

### Note

Countable noun. A person who does manicures is a «manicurist». «Mani-» comes from a word for hand; a pedicure is for feet. Spelling: manICure.

## On Mova

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