chaos
part of speech
noun (chaos — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Chaos is a state of complete confusion and disorder, where nothing is organised. tree →
2) (science, maths) Chaos is when tiny changes at the start lead to huge, hard-to-predict differences later, as in weather. tree →
3) (myth, Bible) In old stories, Chaos was the formless emptiness before the world was made. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life: the morning rush can be chaos, a messy bedroom is chaos, traffic chaos after snow. In stories, chaos breaks out when something goes wrong. In science, weather is chaotic, so forecasts get less certain the further ahead they look (the butterfly effect). In Greek myths, Chaos came first, before the gods.
examples
- The classroom was in chaos when the fire alarm went off. tree →
- Snow caused chaos on the roads. tree →
- The puppy caused chaos in the kitchen. tree →
- After the party the house was total chaos. tree →
- The weather is hard to predict because of chaos. tree →
- In Greek myths, the world began from Chaos. tree →
- I saw handsome furniture, many books, and a chaos of newspapers. tree →
note
Uncountable: no a chaos, no chaoses. Adjective: chaotic. Said KAY-oss; the ch sounds like k. The opposite is order.
In the corpora
- The bathroom queue at 7:30 is chaos.
- Wren's friend adds that peoples without writing had no laws, just chaos.
- You WON'T BELIEVE what happened next», «SNOW CHAOS!
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «chaos» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.