coffee

«coffee» in Mova's school dictionary: a hot dark-brown drink made from the roasted and ground… — 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 (coffee, uncountable; a coffee, coffees = a cup)

meaning for a pupil

1) Coffee is a hot dark-brown drink made from the roasted and ground seeds (beans) of the coffee plant. tree →

2) Coffee is also the beans or powder used to make the drink. tree →

3) A coffee is one cup of it. tree →

4) Coffee can mean a light brown colour. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday: grown-ups often drink coffee in the morning; coffee has caffeine, which keeps you awake and is not good for children. Safety: hot coffee can scald; keep hot drinks away from table edges and babies. In geography, coffee grows in hot countries like Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia and Vietnam. Phrases: «a cup of coffee», «black coffee», «coffee with milk», «coffee shop», «coffee table» (a low table in a living room).

examples

• Mum drinks a cup of coffee every morning. tree →
• Coffee is too bitter for me. tree →
• Can I have two coffees, please? tree →
• Coffee beans grow on bushes in hot countries. tree →
• Keep hot coffee away from the baby. tree →
• We met Grandad in a coffee shop. tree →
• Put your book on the coffee table. tree →
• Coffee has caffeine, which keeps people awake. tree →
• In it I read that you were in warm lands where the coffee-tree grows. tree →

note

Uncountable for the drink in general («some coffee»), countable for cups («two coffees»). Spelled with double f and double e: «coffee». «Coffee table» is a low table, not just for coffee.

In the corpora

• Example: in a café in Toronto, Mum taps her phone on the reader and the coffee is paid in a second.
• Coffee contains caffeine, which makes the brain feel more awake; people who drink it every morning feel slow and grumpy without it.
• Mum gives him a smile and buys him a coffee.
• Small spends like coffees and snacks add up fast; managing money means knowing what comes in and what goes out.
• Apples, almonds, strawberries and coffee all need pollinators.

Trees and pragmatics

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