filament

«filament» in Mova's school dictionary: a very thin thread or wire — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a filament, filaments)

meaning for a pupil

1) A filament is a very thin thread or wire. tree →

2) In an old-style light bulb, the filament is the thin wire that glows when electricity passes through it. tree →

3) (science) A thin thread in living things, such as in fungi, plants or a flower's stamen. tree →

4) The plastic thread used in 3D printers. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science lessons on electricity (filament lamps) and plants (the filament holds the anther in a flower). Phrases: «filament bulb», «filament lamp», «thin filament». It tells the reader something is threadlike.

examples

• The filament in the bulb glowed bright orange. tree →
• When the filament breaks, the bulb stops working. tree →
• The stamen of a flower has a filament and an anther. tree →
• Spiders spin silk filaments. tree →
• Our 3D printer uses plastic filament. tree →
• Fungi grow tiny filaments under the ground. tree →

note

Countable: a filament, filaments. Filament bulbs waste lots of energy as heat; LED bulbs use much less. Do not touch a bulb just switched off; the filament makes it hot.

In the corpora

• The smell is «the fine filament, the telegraphic current» (a thin thread, like a telegraph wire's signal).
• An LED bulb gives the same light as an old filament bulb with far less electricity.

Trees and pragmatics

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