fizz

«fizz» in Mova's school dictionary: To make lots of tiny gas bubbles with a hissing sound… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (fizz, fizzes, fizzed, fizzing); noun (fizz)

meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To make lots of tiny gas bubbles with a hissing sound, like a fizzy drink. tree →

2) (noun) The bubbles in a drink, or the hissing sound. tree →

3) (noun, informal) Excitement or energy. tree →

4) (noun, UK informal) A fizzy drink, sometimes champagne. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: vinegar and bicarbonate of soda fizz because they make carbon dioxide gas. Fizzy drinks lose their fizz when left open. In stories: «The room fizzed with excitement». Phrase: «fizz out» = end weakly.

examples

• The tablet fizzed in the water. tree →
• My lemonade has lost its fizz. tree →
• Mix vinegar and baking soda and watch it fizz. tree →
• The firework fizzed and then went out. tree →
• The classroom fizzed with excitement. tree →
• Shake the bottle and the fizz will spray out. tree →
• They opened some fizz to celebrate. tree →
• Whirr-r-r, how they fizzed and blazed! tree →

note

Double z. Uncountable noun. Adjective: fizzy. Fizz = carbon dioxide gas bubbles. Safety: don't shake fizzy drinks before opening.

In the corpora

• When the fizz stops, one of the two has been used up.
• Add more of whichever ran out and the fizzing starts again: that is how you can find out which one it was.
• Warm vinegar fizzes harder, because warmth makes particles move faster and meet more often.
• Vinegar (an acid) and baking soda (an alkali) react to make carbon dioxide gas, which makes the fizz.
• Eggshell is calcium carbonate; in vinegar it fizzes away over days and leaves a rubbery egg held by its thin skin.

Trees and pragmatics

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