extreme
part of speech
adjective (extreme, more extreme, most extreme); noun (an extreme, extremes)
meaning for a pupil
1) Extreme means very great, very strong or much more than usual: extreme heat. tree →
2) Extreme means very far from the middle or the usual, like extreme ideas. tree →
3) An extreme is the furthest point or the most of something: from one extreme to the other. tree →
4) Extreme sports are dangerous, exciting sports. tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography and science, pupils learn about extreme weather like droughts, floods and heatwaves, and extreme places like deserts and the poles. In safety, extreme heat or cold can be dangerous. Phrases: extreme weather, go to extremes, the extreme north, extreme sports.
examples
- Antarctica has extreme cold. tree →
- Extreme weather can cause floods and fires. tree →
- Skydiving is an extreme sport. tree →
- Drink water in extreme heat. tree →
- He goes to extremes and never does things by halves. tree →
- The temperature went from one extreme to the other. tree →
- We live in the extreme north of the country. tree →
- The truth lies between these two extremes. tree →
note
Adjective; adverb: extremely; noun: extremity. Countable noun: an extreme, extremes. In maths, the extremes of a set are the smallest and the largest values.
In the corpora
- These are some of the milder verses.» (milder = less extreme)
- "Terminate with extreme prejudice" means assassinate, murder an important or chosen person on purpose (US spy slang).
- A straw man changes what someone said into something more extreme, then attacks that instead of the real idea.
- A straw man repeats the other person's idea as something more extreme or sillier, then attacks that instead.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «extreme» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.