episode

«episode» in Mova's school dictionary: one part of a TV or radio series, podcast or story told… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an episode, episodes)

meaning for a pupil

1) An episode is one part of a TV or radio series, podcast or story told in parts. tree →

2) An episode is one event or short period of time that stands out, like an episode of illness. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children watch episodes of shows; in reading, a long story may have episodes. Phrases: «the next episode», «the first episode», «an episode of», «a funny episode».

examples

• I watched one episode of the cartoon before bed. tree →
• The last episode ended with a mystery. tree →
• Each episode is twenty minutes long. tree →
• There are ten episodes in the first series. tree →
• That was an embarrassing episode I'd rather forget. tree →
• Grandpa had an episode of dizziness. tree →
• If each episode is 25 minutes, 4 episodes take 100 minutes. tree →
• With the bridge-building episode in this "legend" may be compared the opening of another Russian story. tree →

note

Countable. Starts with a vowel sound: «an episode». A group of episodes is a «series» (UK) or «season» (US). In maths, multiplying episode length by the number of episodes gives the total time.

In the corpora

• Reality TV is real people in made-up situations, filmed for weeks and cut down into dramatic episodes.
• Streaming plays the next episode automatically to keep you watching; turning off autoplay helps you decide when to stop.
• It cannot see the future, so it invents next week's episode.
• A cliffhanger ends a chapter or episode at a tense moment, so the reader must read on.

Trees and pragmatics

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