basketball

«basketball» in Mova's school dictionary: a team game where players bounce the ball and try to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (basketball; a basketball, basketballs)

meaning for a pupil

1) Basketball is a team game where players bounce the ball and try to throw it through a high hoop with a net. tree →

2) A basketball is the large orange ball used in the game. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE lessons pupils learn to dribble, pass and shoot. A team has five players on court. Scoring: a basket inside the line is 2 points, from far outside the arc 3 points, a free throw 1 point. Basketball was invented by James Naismith, a Canadian teacher working in the USA. Phrases: play basketball, basketball court, basketball hoop, shoot hoops.

examples

• We play basketball in PE. tree →
• He bounced the basketball down the court. tree →
• Each team has five players on the court. tree →
• She scored a basket from far away for three points. tree →
• The basketball hoop is very high. tree →
• Can I borrow your basketball? tree →
• Our team won the basketball match. tree →
• Tall players are good at basketball. tree →

note

One word. The game is uncountable (play basketball, no «a»); the ball is countable (a basketball). Maths: count points — 2 for a normal basket, 3 from beyond the three-point line, 1 for each free throw. You must bounce (dribble) the ball while you walk; running with it is not allowed.

In the corpora

• A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and basketball.
• You do not hang on the basketball rim, because the hoop or you can fall.
• Basketball is played 5 a side, so 10 players are on the court.
• In a study reported from Stanford, college basketball players who slept longer for several weeks shot free throws more accurately.

Trees and pragmatics

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