exploration

«exploration» in Mova's school dictionary: travelling to and looking around a place to find out what… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (exploration, explorations); verb explore; noun explorer

meaning for a pupil

1) Exploration is travelling to and looking around a place to find out what is there, especially a place nobody knows well. tree →

2) Exploration is also looking closely at an idea or question to learn more. tree →

3) (medicine) An exploration can be a doctor examining part of the body. tree →

sense in the lessons

History lessons (Age of Exploration, polar exploration, space exploration), science investigations, and stories of adventure. Phrases: space exploration, voyage of exploration, ocean exploration.

examples

• Space exploration has taken people to the Moon. tree →
• The children went on an exploration of the woods. tree →
• The class did an exploration of how magnets work. tree →
• Ocean exploration finds new creatures every year. tree →
• The Age of Exploration changed maps of the world. tree →
• Polar exploration was cold and dangerous. tree →

note

Countable and uncountable. Explorers of the past often met people who already lived in the places «discovered», so «discovered» can be one-sided. Spelling: explore drops the e: exploration.

Trees and pragmatics

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