transcription, транскрипция: [ fru:t ]
( fruit, or fruits, fruits, fruiting, fruited)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Fruit or a fruit is something which grows on a tree or bush and which contains seeds or a stone covered by a substance that you can eat.
Fresh fruit and vegetables provide fibre and vitamins.
...bananas and other tropical fruits...
Try to eat at least one piece of fruit a day.
N-VAR
2.
If a plant fruits , it produces fruit.
The scientists will study the variety of trees and observe which are fruiting.
VERB : V
3.
The fruits or the fruit of someone’s work or activity are the good things that result from it.
The team have really worked hard and Mansell is enjoying the fruits of that labour...
The findings are the fruit of more than three years research.
N-COUNT : usu the N of n
4.
see also dried fruit , forbidden fruit , kiwi fruit , passion fruit
5.
If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit , it is successful and produces good results.
He was naturally disappointed when the talks failed to bear fruit.
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
The first fruits or the first fruit of a project or activity are its earliest results or profits.
This project is one of the first fruits of commercial co-operation between the two countries.
PHRASE : oft PHR of n