ticket
part of speech
noun (ticket, tickets)
meaning for a pupil
1) A ticket is a small paper or card that shows you paid to ride, watch a show or go in. tree →
2) A ticket is a paper with a number for a raffle or lottery. tree →
3) A parking or speeding ticket is a paper telling a driver to pay a fine. tree →
4) A ticket in a shop or queue shows your turn or price. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the mystic school: In note 07 the tickets are the requests and complaints sent to heaven nonstop; on the bench nobody sends him one. In the primary lessons: Maths: a thing bought and sold at a price; tickets per person, money from tickets: cost = number of tickets × price; adult and child prices. Everyday: bus ticket, train ticket, cinema ticket, return ticket, ticket office, raffle ticket.
examples
- They kept the horns, the flames and the name, and built a much more exciting devil without him — one who hates for its own sake and never closes a ticket. (note 06) tree →
- Close the ticket. (note 06) tree →
- Each with its own prayers, complaints, petitions, bargains, accusations, thank-you notes, threats, and support tickets marked urgent. (note 07) tree →
- In the note, with Jesus the debugger pushed the test suite past the point where a sane QA lead would say "Reproduced. Close the ticket." (lesson 015) tree →
- "The Holiday in Hell" begins with heaven's workload: a trillion trillion worlds, each sending prayers, complaints, bargains, thank-you notes and support tickets marked urgent, every second, for a trillion trillion years. (lesson 016) tree →
- A ticket costs 8 dollars. tree →
- They sold 120 tickets. tree →
- An adult ticket costs 10 dollars and a child ticket 5. tree →
- How much do 4 tickets cost? tree →
- Keep your ticket until the end of the trip. tree →
- Dad got a parking ticket. tree →
- We bought raffle tickets for the school fair. tree →
- Show your ticket at the gate. tree →
- She could never have the heart, he thought, to send him a ticket to go and see it, if it had been real. tree →
note
Countable: a ticket, tickets. Cost = number of tickets × price; tickets = money ÷ price. Trap: when adult and child prices differ, multiply each group by its own price before adding.
In the corpora
- A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another.
- A family ticket is only a good deal after checking: add up the single tickets for your family and compare.
- Cinemas earn a big part of their money from snacks, because much of the ticket money goes to the film company.
- A return ticket takes you there and brings you back: it is 2 journeys.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ticket» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.