cleaners

«cleaners» in Mova's school dictionary: to clean buildings, like schools, offices or homes — 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 plural (cleaners, of cleaner); also «the cleaner's» (a dry-cleaning shop)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cleaners are people whose job is to clean buildings, like schools, offices or homes. tree →

2) Cleaners are also products or machines used for cleaning, like floor cleaners or vacuum cleaners. tree →

3) «The cleaners» or «the dry cleaner's» is a shop that cleans clothes with special chemicals. tree →

sense in the lessons

In community lessons, school cleaners keep classrooms and toilets clean, and children help by tidying up and saying thank you. In safety lessons, household cleaners (bleach, oven cleaner, toilet cleaner, dishwasher tablets) are poisonous: never drink, sniff or mix them, keep them in their own bottles, and tell an adult if one spills; mixing bleach with other cleaners can make a dangerous gas. Phrases: vacuum cleaner, window cleaners, household cleaners, take it to the cleaners, be taken to the cleaners (lose a lot of money).

examples

• The school cleaners work after everyone goes home. tree →
• Keep cleaners locked away from little children. tree →
• Never mix different cleaners together. tree →
• Dad took his suit to the cleaners. tree →
• Our vacuum cleaner is very loud. tree →
• Say thank you to the cleaners for keeping school tidy. tree →
• Some cleaners have a warning sign on the bottle. tree →
• If you swallow cleaners by accident, tell an adult at once. tree →

note

Plural of cleaner. A cleaner can be a person or a product, so read the sentence to see which. Cleaning products often look like drinks or sweets (bright colours); they are not, and must stay in their labelled bottles. Poison help lines can advise adults in an emergency.

In the corpora

• Some cleaners must never meet: bleach poured together with an acid toilet cleaner gives off chlorine, a poisonous gas.
• For example, bleach mixed with some other cleaners makes a poisonous gas.
• That is why cleaners are never mixed, and why you never sniff or taste a bottle to find out what is inside.
• Never mix bleach with other cleaners, because together they can make a poisonous gas.
• Caretakers, cleaners and dinner ladies deserve the same respect as the head teacher.

Trees and pragmatics

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