guitar

«guitar» in Mova's school dictionary: a musical instrument with strings that you play with your… — 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 (guitar, guitars)

meaning for a pupil

1) A guitar is a musical instrument with strings that you play with your fingers or a small pick. A guitar usually has 6 strings. tree →

2) An electric guitar needs an amplifier to sound loud. tree →

sense in the lessons

a thing counted or bought; a guitar's strings (usually 6); prices; in music lessons pupils learn chords on the guitar; in science: a shorter or tighter string makes a higher sound; phrases: «play the guitar», «guitar lessons», «strum the guitar»

examples

• A guitar costs $120. tree →
• Each guitar has 6 strings. tree →
• The shop sold 4 guitars. tree →
• How many strings do 5 guitars have? tree →
• My brother plays the guitar in a band. tree →
• She strummed her guitar around the campfire. tree →
• A tighter string gives a higher note. tree →
• He has guitar lessons every Thursday. tree →

note

A thing counted; hidden fact: a guitar has 6 strings (5 guitars → 30 strings). We «play the guitar» (with «the»). A bass guitar usually has 4 strings.

In the corpora

• Every sound starts with something wobbling very fast: a guitar string, a drum skin, or the vocal cords in your throat.
• A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long, loose string vibrates slowly and sounds low.

Trees and pragmatics

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