earth
part of speech
noun (Earth — the planet; earth — soil, the ground)
meaning for a pupil
1) The planet we live on, the third planet from the Sun (often written Earth). tree →
2) Soil, the brown stuff that plants grow in. tree →
3) The ground or land, not the sea or sky. tree →
4) In British English, a wire that makes electricity safe (a ground wire in American English). tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, Earth spins once a day (day and night) and goes around the Sun once a year (seasons with its tilt); it has land, oceans and air. In nature study, earth is soil. Phrases: on Earth, planet Earth, down to earth (sensible), what on earth, the ends of the earth, Earth Day.
examples
- We live on planet Earth. tree →
- The Earth goes around the Sun. tree →
- Plant the seeds in the earth. tree →
- Most of the Earth is covered by water. tree →
- Worms live in the earth. tree →
- What on earth are you doing? tree →
- The astronauts came back to Earth. tree →
- She is a down-to-earth person. tree →
note
Capital "Earth" for the planet; small "earth" for soil. Myth: the Earth is not flat; it is a ball (sphere). "Earth" (soil) is uncountable.
In the corpora
- Whale poo spreads nutrients that feed plankton, and plankton makes much of Earth's oxygen.
- The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the largest coral reef system on Earth, made of thousands of separate reefs.
- Most life on Earth is too small to see with our eyes, and scientists still discover thousands of new microscopic kinds every year.
- Scientists track big asteroids, and none of the known large ones will hit Earth in the next hundred years.
- In 2022 the DART spacecraft bumped into an asteroid and changed its path, a test of how to protect Earth.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «earth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.