library
part of speech
noun (library, libraries)
meaning for a pupil
1) A library is a place with many books, and often films and computers, that people can borrow or use. tree →
2) A library is also a room in a school or house where books are kept. tree →
3) A library is a collection of books, music or games that someone owns. tree →
4) In computing, a library is a set of ready-made code. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths it is a place with books counted on shelves, borrowed and returned: borrowed books are taken away, returned books are added back, and books per shelf × shelves gives the total. In everyday life children get a library card, borrow books for a few weeks and return them by the due date; you keep quiet so others can read.
examples
- All these translations are out of print and are rarely found even in well regulated libraries. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Interested readers can check the 1562 Mantua edition for themselves through the digital archives of the National Library of Israel: nli.org.il/he/books/NNLALEPH990012793690205171/NLI. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- The library has 500 books. tree →
- Each shelf holds 40 books. tree →
- 25 books were borrowed and 10 returned. tree →
- How many books are in the library now? tree →
- I got my first library card today. tree →
- Our class visits the school library every Friday. tree →
- Please be quiet in the library. tree →
- You must return the books within three weeks. tree →
- The public library has free computers and story time. tree →
- So Lionel went down into the library. tree →
note
Plural: «libraries» (y changes to ies). Spelling trap: two r's, «li-brar-y» (not «libary»). False friend: in some languages a similar word means a bookshop; a library lends books, a bookshop sells them. A librarian works in a library. Maths: books per shelf × shelves gives the total.
In the corpora
- While a parent is unemployed the family may claim benefits and cut spending; free fun like parks and libraries helps.
- Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.
- It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.
- The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors.
- Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could open.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «library» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.