climate

«climate» in Mova's school dictionary: its usual weather over many years, such as hot and dry or… — 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 (a climate, climates; climate, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) The climate of a place is its usual weather over many years, such as hot and dry or cold and wet. tree →

2) Climate change means the Earth's climate is slowly changing, mostly getting warmer, largely because of gases people release by burning fuel. tree →

3) The climate of a group is its general mood: a friendly climate in class. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science, climate is different from weather: weather is what happens today, climate is the pattern over about 30 years. Climate zones: tropical, desert, temperate, polar. Environment lessons: saving energy and planting trees help with climate change. Phrases: climate change, a warm climate, climate zone.

examples

• The climate in the desert is hot and dry. tree →
• Ireland has a mild, wet climate. tree →
• Polar bears live in a very cold climate. tree →
• Climate change is melting the ice at the poles. tree →
• Bananas grow in a tropical climate. tree →
• Weather changes every day, but climate changes slowly. tree →
• Canada has a cold climate in the north. tree →
• There was a happy climate in our classroom. tree →
• The climate in the north of Europe is really dreadful. tree →

note

Weather vs climate is a classic trap: «It is snowing» is weather, «It snows a lot here in winter» is climate. Pronounced KLY-mit; spelled with -ate at the end.

In the corpora

• When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people arrived and hunted, so many giants died out.
• When the Ice Age ended, the climate warmed fast, grassland turned to forest and people hunted more.
• The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists still argue how much was climate and how much was people.
• In Europa Universalis 5 a whole location gets one climate label, like a stamp.
• Climate is the long average of weather over thirty years or more, the way your mood today differs from your whole personality.

Trees and pragmatics

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