camp

«camp» in Mova's school dictionary: a place where people stay in tents or cabins, often outdoors — 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

noun (camp, camps); verb (camp, camps, camped, camping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A camp is a place where people stay in tents or cabins, often outdoors. tree →

2) A summer camp is a place where children go in the holidays to do activities. tree →

3) To camp is to stay outdoors in a tent. tree →

4) A camp can be a group of people who share an idea. tree →

sense in the lessons

a place in the story; children, tents, days and costs counted; phrases «summer camp», «set up camp», «base camp», «camp out», «campfire»

examples

• 60 children go to summer camp. tree →
• Each tent at camp holds 4. tree →
• Camp costs 200 dollars a week. tree →
• They camp for 5 nights. tree →
• We set up camp by the lake. tree →
• Climbers rest at base camp. tree →
• We camped out in the garden. tree →
• At camp we learned to canoe. tree →
• We sang songs around the campfire. tree →
• Never leave a campfire burning. tree →
• I say, John, I see the smoke of the redskin camp!” tree →

note

No clue by itself; look for per tent or per week rates. Trap: 5 nights of camping can mean 6 days. Tents needed = children ÷ per tent, rounded up.

In the corpora

• Some words hide terrible things: governments have called prison camps "vocational training centres".
• "Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps.
• Example: a family in British Columbia camps in bear country.
• In bear country, store food in bear-proof containers and keep a clean camp, because bears follow food smells.
• At football camp Connor is paired with Mateo, who only speaks Spanish.

Trees and pragmatics

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