atlantic

«atlantic» in Mova's school dictionary: the second largest ocean, lying between the Americas on… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective / proper noun (the Atlantic, the Atlantic Ocean — written with a capital A)

meaning for a pupil

1) The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean, lying between the Americas on the west and Europe and Africa on the east. tree →

2) As an adjective, to do with this ocean: "Atlantic salmon", "the Atlantic coast". tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography, the Atlantic separates North and South America from Europe and Africa; Ireland and the UK face it on the west. In history, sailors such as Columbus crossed the Atlantic in sailing ships. Phrases: the Atlantic Ocean, cross the Atlantic, Atlantic coast, North Atlantic, transatlantic.

examples

• The Atlantic Ocean is between America and Europe. tree →
• Ireland's west coast faces the Atlantic. tree →
• We flew across the Atlantic to visit Grandma. tree →
• Atlantic salmon swim up rivers to lay eggs. tree →
• The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic. tree →
• Hurricanes often form over the warm Atlantic. tree →
• That the others came from across the Atlantic is shown by the fact that it occurs in Ireland (Kennedy, Fictions, pp. 5-10) and Scotland (Campbell, No. tree →

note

Always written with a capital A: Atlantic. Use "the": "the Atlantic". The largest ocean is the Pacific, not the Atlantic. "Transatlantic" means across the Atlantic. Do not confuse with "Atlantis", a made-up island in old stories.

In the corpora

• After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both ways, and this swap is called the Columbian exchange.
• After 1492 plants and animals crossed the Atlantic in both directions, which historians call the Columbian Exchange.
• After 1500 the Mediterranean slowly became less central to world trade as Atlantic and ocean routes grew.
• The Atlantic Ocean is a young ocean that started opening about 180 million years ago and is still widening.
• The voyage across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage; people were chained and crowded into ships for weeks, and many died.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «atlantic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.