displace

«displace» in Mova's school dictionary: to push it out of its place or take its place — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (displace, displaces, displaced, displacing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To displace something is to push it out of its place or take its place. tree →

2) To displace people is to force them to leave their homes, for example because of war or floods. tree →

3) In science, an object put in water displaces (pushes aside) some of the water. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, an object dropped into water displaces water and the level rises; the displaced water's volume equals the object's volume, a way to measure odd shapes. In geography and news, floods or wars displace families. Phrases: displaced people, displacement of water.

examples

• The stone displaced water and the level rose. tree →
• Floods displaced thousands of families. tree →
• The new road displaced many birds from the woods. tree →
• Measure how much water the toy displaces. tree →
• A ship displaces a lot of water. tree →
• Weeds can displace native plants. tree →

note

Regular verb. Noun: displacement. In maths/science: volume of object = water level after − water level before; e.g. from 200 ml to 250 ml means 50 ml (50 cm³) was displaced.

In the corpora

• "Internally displaced person" means someone forced from home who is still inside their own country.
• An object in water pushes some water out of the way; we say it displaces the water.
• A floating object pushes aside, or displaces, some water.

Trees and pragmatics

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