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# peel

verb (peel, peels, peeled, peeling); noun (peel)

«peel» 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. To peel is to take the skin off fruit or vegetables. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m1)
2. The peel is the skin, like a banana peel or orange peel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m2)
3. To peel can mean that a thin layer comes off by itself: paint peels, skin peels after sunburn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m3)
4. To peel off a sticker is to pull it away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m4)
5. To peel can also mean to strip the bark off a tree or a stick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#m5)

### In the lessons

In maths: an action done to fruit; peels per minute; the weight of the peel taken away. In the kitchen: peeling potatoes and carrots with an adult. In science: skin peels after sunburn; old paint peels in the sun and rain. In stories: «Keep your eyes peeled» means watch carefully.

### Examples

- She peels 6 potatoes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x1)
- He peels 3 apples a minute. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x2)
- The orange peel weighs 40 grams. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x3)
- How many potatoes are peeled in 5 minutes? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x4)
- Peel the banana before you eat it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x5)
- The paint on the old fence is peeling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x6)
- My nose peeled after the sunburn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x7)
- Peel off the sticker carefully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x8)
- Keep your eyes peeled for the bus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x9)
- He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peel/#x10)

### Note

Peeling at a speed is a rate: total = rate × time. Peel weight is taken away from the whole fruit. Trap: peeled potatoes are still the same number of potatoes. «Peel» (the skin) is usually uncountable. Homophone: peal (the ringing of bells). Safety: use a peeler carefully and ask an adult; a banana peel on the floor is slippery.

## In Jewish tradition

Jacob strips the bark from rods to make white streaks, as part of his plan with Laban's flocks.

**Interpretation.** Commentators discuss this episode as Jacob's cleverness, but many say his success came from God's help and not from the rods.

### Examples

- And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods. (Torah GEN.30.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/peel/#x1)
- And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. (Torah GEN.30.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/peel/#x2)

### Note

Peeling at a speed is a rate: total = rate × time. Peel weight is taken away from the whole fruit. Trap: peeled potatoes are still the same number of potatoes. «Peel» (the skin) is usually uncountable. Homophone: peal (the ringing of bells). Safety: use a peeler carefully and ask an adult; a banana peel on the floor is slippery.

## On Mova

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