industrial

«industrial» in Mova's school dictionary: to do with factories, making goods, and industry — 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

adjective (industrial)

meaning for a pupil

1) Industrial means to do with factories, making goods, and industry. tree →

2) An industrial place has lots of factories. tree →

3) Industrial also describes things that are strong and large enough for factory use, like industrial machines. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history, the Industrial Revolution was when machines and factories changed how people lived and worked; children worked in mills and mines. In geography, industrial areas, industrial estates and industrial pollution are studied.

examples

• The Industrial Revolution started in Britain. tree →
• Smoke rose from the industrial chimneys. tree →
• Dad works on an industrial estate. tree →
• Industrial waste polluted the river. tree →
• They used an industrial vacuum to clean the hall. tree →
• Manchester was a great industrial city. tree →

note

Noun: industry. Adverb: industrially. Do not confuse with «industrious» (hard-working).

In the corpora

• Coal powered the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s.
• The Industrial Revolution began in Britain around 1760, when people began making things with machines in factories instead of by hand at home.
• After 1868 Japan studied factories, schools and laws from other countries and built its own versions, becoming an industrial power within decades.

Trees and pragmatics

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