bicycle
part of speech
noun (bicycle, bicycles); verb (bicycle — rare, ride a bicycle)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bicycle is a vehicle with two wheels that you ride by pushing pedals with your feet. tree →
2) It is often called a bike. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a counted thing with 2 wheels; a ride with a distance or a speed; a price; wheel puzzles with tricycles and cars. In science: gears, brakes and friction; the bicycle is a green way to travel. In everyday life and safety: riding to school, wearing a helmet, bike lanes. Phrases: «ride a bicycle», «by bicycle», «bicycle helmet», «bicycle lane».
examples
- A bicycle has 2 wheels. tree →
- There are 6 bicycles and 2 cars. tree →
- He rides his bicycle 5 km a day. tree →
- The bicycle costs 120 dollars. tree →
- Always wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle. tree →
- She learned to ride a bicycle without stabilisers. tree →
- The brakes on my bicycle use friction to stop the wheels. tree →
- Lots of people in the Netherlands go to work by bicycle. tree →
- Others rode on bicycles or on wooden horses. tree →
note
Countable: «a bicycle». «Ride a bicycle», not «drive a bicycle». «Bi-» means two (bicycle 2 wheels, tricycle 3). Maths: hides «2 wheels each». Trap: in wheel puzzles with tricycles (3) and cars (4) the wheels differ.
In the corpora
- The safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain came in the 1880s and let many women travel alone for the first time.
- If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each, first find how many ride alone.
- A bicycle turns the push of your legs into rolling.
- A bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle has 3, and a car has 4.
- A bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle 3, a car 4, and a usual train carriage 8.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bicycle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.