import

«import» in Mova's school dictionary: To bring goods into a country from another country to sell — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (import, imports, imported, importing); noun (an import, imports; import, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To bring goods into a country from another country to sell. tree →

2) (noun) A product brought in from another country. tree →

3) (computing) To bring a file or data into a program. tree →

4) (formal, noun) Importance, as in «a matter of great import». tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and business lessons: countries import and export goods; bananas are imported to the UK. In computing: import photos into a document. In maths, trade problems add up imports and exports. Phrases: import from, imports and exports.

examples

• The UK imports bananas from the Caribbean. tree →
• Oil is one of the country's main imports. tree →
• Import the photos onto the laptop. tree →
• Many toys are imported from China. tree →
• The shop sells imported cheese. tree →
• This is a matter of great import, said the judge. tree →
• There are no olives in the Ebony Island, and those imported from here fetch a high price. tree →

note

Stress: verb «im-PORT», noun «IM-port». Opposite: export. In maths, if a country imports more than it exports, it spends more than it earns from trade.

In the corpora

• Exports are goods a country sells abroad and imports are goods it buys from abroad.
• Trade is buying and selling between countries; an import is something bought from abroad, and an export is something sold abroad.
• A shortage is not having enough of something; countries that depend on imports are hit hard when trade is cut off.

Trees and pragmatics

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