geologist

«geologist» in Mova's school dictionary: a scientist who studies rocks, soil, minerals and how the… — 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 geologist, geologists)

meaning for a pupil

A geologist is a scientist who studies rocks, soil, minerals and how the Earth was formed and changes. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons about rocks, volcanoes, earthquakes, fossils; in jobs; geologists find oil, water or metals; related: geology (the subject).

examples

• The geologist studied the layers in the cliff. tree →
• Geologists can tell how old a rock is. tree →
• My mum is a geologist who studies volcanoes. tree →
• A geologist found fossils in the shale. tree →
• Geologists help find water underground. tree →

note

Countable. Not to be confused with a palaeontologist, who studies fossils of ancient life, or an archaeologist, who studies human history from objects.

In the corpora

• Geologists identify minerals by hardness, colour, lustre (shine), streak and how they break.
• The Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, a span so huge that geologists call it deep time.

Trees and pragmatics

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