granite

«granite» in Mova's school dictionary: a very hard, grey, pink or speckled rock made from cooled… — 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 (granite — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Granite is a very hard, grey, pink or speckled rock made from cooled magma deep under the ground. tree →

2) «Made of granite» can also mean very firm and hard to change. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on rocks, granite is an example of an igneous rock: it forms when hot liquid rock cools slowly underground, so it has large crystals you can see (quartz, feldspar, mica). It is hard and does not soak up water, so it is used for kitchen worktops, buildings, monuments and gravestones. Mountains and cliffs in many places are made of granite.

examples

• Granite is an igneous rock with crystals you can see. tree →
• Our kitchen worktop is made of polished granite. tree →
• The old castle was built from huge granite blocks. tree →
• Granite is harder than chalk or sandstone. tree →
• We looked at a piece of pink granite with a magnifying glass. tree →
• The statue in the park stands on a granite base. tree →
• The climbers scaled a granite cliff. tree →
• The river-horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some granite», «a block of granite», not «a granite». Do not confuse with «granted» or «graphite» (the soft grey material in pencils). Granite is igneous, not sedimentary.

In the corpora

• Granite is a speckled igneous rock with big crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica, formed deep underground.
• Granite is seen at the surface only after the rocks above it have been worn away, as on Dartmoor in England.

Trees and pragmatics

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