capacity
part of speech
noun (a capacity, capacities; also uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) The amount a container can hold. tree →
2) The largest number of people a place can hold. tree →
3) Ability to do something. tree →
4) (formal) A role or position: "in her capacity as head teacher". tree →
sense in the lessons
A key maths word: capacity of jugs and bottles in litres and millilitres. In everyday life: the stadium has a capacity of 40,000; "full to capacity". Phrases: full to capacity, capacity of, in my capacity as.
examples
- The jug has a capacity of 2 litres. tree →
- The hall was full to capacity. tree →
- The bus has a capacity of 52 passengers. tree →
- What is the capacity of the fish tank? tree →
- She has a great capacity for hard work. tree →
- Speaking in her capacity as head teacher, she thanked the parents. tree →
- The manner in which these tales are told, however, may often be taken as a test of the intellectual capacity of their tellers. tree →
note
Maths: capacity is how much it can hold (measured in ml, l, gallons, pints); volume is how much space something takes up. Capacity is a maximum, not the amount actually in it: a 2-litre jug might hold only 1 litre now.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «capacity» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.