horizon

«horizon» in Mova's school dictionary: the line far away where the land or sea seems to meet the… — 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

noun (the horizon; a horizon, horizons)

meaning for a pupil

1) The horizon is the line far away where the land or sea seems to meet the sky. tree →

2) Your horizons are the limits of what you know and have experienced; to broaden your horizons means to learn and see new things. tree →

3) On the horizon means likely to happen soon. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography: the Sun rises and sets on the horizon; the horizon looks flat but the Earth is round, which is why ships disappear bottom first over the horizon. In art lessons, the horizon line helps draw landscapes and perspective. In maths, «horizontal» (flat, like the horizon) comes from this word. Phrases: «on the horizon», «over the horizon», «below the horizon», «broaden your horizons».

examples

• The sun sank below the horizon. tree →
• A ship appeared on the horizon. tree →
• We could see mountains on the horizon. tree →
• Ships seem to sink over the horizon because the Earth is curved. tree →
• Draw a horizon line across your page first. tree →
• Travelling broadens your horizons. tree →
• There are big changes on the horizon. tree →
• The sky was pink along the horizon. tree →
• A silvery thread among the stars, it soon drifted low beneath the horizon. tree →

note

Stress: ho-RI-zon (the «ri» rhymes with «eye»). Adjective: «horizontal» (flat, level, side to side). The opposite direction is «vertical» (straight up and down).

In the corpora

• The moon looks bigger near the horizon only because the brain compares it with trees and buildings.
• In the northern hemisphere, the height of the Pole Star above the horizon in degrees is roughly equal to your latitude.
• These layers are called horizons.
• Soil has layers called horizons: dark topsoil, paler subsoil below, and broken rock above the bedrock.
• The edge of a black hole is called the event horizon: anything that crosses it can never come back out.

Trees and pragmatics

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