What associations does the noun caress you? Someone has a small and fluffy predatory animal, another has positively colored emotions and actions, tenderness and warmth. What is most interesting - both the first and second will be right. There are several meanings of the word affection, and some of them have nothing in common with each other. Let's try to figure it out in order.
What is affection?
So, weasel is a fast, beautiful, flexible animal of very small sizes. In summer, its skin is brownish, and in winter - white, like fresh snow. She has strong, clawed, nimble paws, well adapted to successfully climb trees.
Despite this, she prefers to take refuge not in foliage, but between stones or in the roots of huge trees.
Homonyms for the word weasel
A noun caress has a homonym that sounds and is spelled just like the name of an animal. But he calls good feelings or actions filled with tenderness in relation to another person.
Morphological characteristics
The noun caress consists of five letters and sounds (two vowels and three solid consonants, of which two consonants are deaf and one is sonoric), two syllables, the stress falls on the first syllable.
In the meaning of the animal, it is a common noun and animated, while affection / tenderness belongs to the grammatical category of the inanimate and also common.
Declination
Both words are feminine nouns and refer to the first declension.
| Case / number | Questions | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative case | Who! What? | Weasel is tenderness, love, warmth, sweetness, care. | Weasels can climb tall trees well and run away from enemies. |
| Genitive | Whom? What? | Weasels, a wonderful companion of love, I have not expected from him for a long time. | Weasels have very sharp claws that can cause very serious wounds. |
| Dative | To whom? Why? | I do not trust his demonstrative affection; usually he is not at all like that. | Don’t come to caresses, son - they will easily bite or flatten the skin. |
| Accusative | Whom? What? | I see your affection praised, I see your true face. | I’ll visit the sick caresses in the nursery, I will ask veterinarians and foresters if I need help. |
| Instrumental case | By whom? Than? | I am with you with affection, with all my soul, and you ... | Branches of trees closed over caresses, today they managed to escape from kites. |
| Prepositional | About whom? About what? | What do you know about affection? Nobody has ever loved you, and you do not love anyone but yourself! | I read about affection only in children's books about animals. |
Synonyms for weasel
What to do if in the text the noun, considered by us in such detail, is present in excessive quantity? Try to find related words for the word affection.
- Grace: When Alexei Dmitrievich looked at this not very beautiful woman, all the mercy of the world was concentrated in his warm gaze.
- Kindness: Kindness showed through everything: in touch, in words, in breath.
- Tenderness: Tenderness is gone, it's time to leave, stop torturing each other.
- Softness: The softness of the voice of the new physical education teacher bribed and deceived the students.
- Friendliness: The main condition for communication in the community is friendliness, respect for others and friendliness.
Antonyms
Antonyms are words that are one part of speech, having different spelling and sound and meaning that is opposite in meaning.
Weasel is not:
- Strictness: Strictness and affection are indispensable conditions for a good upbringing.
- Rudeness: The rudeness of a loved one offended and wounded Margarita, she did not understand at all how such dramatic changes could have happened to him in just a few days.
- Cruelty: Cruelty is the mother of violence.
Gang words
In Russian classes in elementary grades, schoolchildren often have to select cognate words for different words.
The noun caress may well be among them:
- Caress: Marianna Albertovna was not able to caress and cradle her child, probably in infancy she was deprived of the love and care of her parents.
- Affectionate: Andrei Nikolaevich’s affectionate daughter was always happy about his father’s arrival and tried to wait for him from work, no matter how late he came.
- Nelaskovy: Who are you so awkward freak!
- Affectionately: In order to reassure the victim, the young policeman talked to her calmly, affectionately, patiently.
- Nelaskovo: Nikolai's prickly, cold eyes looked awkward, even with contempt.
- Affectionate: In the last lesson, we studied diminutive suffixes of adjectives.
- To caress: No one in the whole world will caress the poor orphan Grishenka, will not regret, will not sympathize with his grief.
- Swallow: Mom, look, what a sweet little swallow with cubs, let's come closer to them!
Interesting Weasel Facts
Did you know that weasel is the smallest predator living on our green planet. By the way, she lives on all continents lying in the northern hemisphere.
- This, at first glance, a cute little animal is aggressive and a kind of courage. She can fight off a predator much larger than herself.
- How to distinguish affection from another predator - an ermine, which looks like it like a larger twin brother? The difference is in the tail. At the weasel it is monophonic.
- In ancient times, the Slavs considered this beast the guardian of the house, rest in it. And the Spaniards did not see the Frog Princess, but saw the endearment of an enchanted beauty.
- In summer - brown, in winter - white. Who is this riddle about? Guessed: about her, about our affection!
- This small predator can live almost as long as humans. A true long-liver in the animal world!
- The Romans tamed the weasels and kept them in their homes as mousetraps.