interest
part of speech
noun (interest, interests); verb (interest, interests, interested, interesting)
meaning for a pupil
1) Interest is the feeling of wanting to know more about something. tree →
2) An interest is something you like doing or learning about, like a hobby. tree →
3) In money, interest is extra money a bank pays you for saving, or extra money you pay when you borrow. tree →
4) To interest someone means to make them want to know more. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, people share interests with friends; school projects can follow a child's interests. In maths, interest is money added on, usually as a percentage; if a bank pays 10% interest on $100, you get $10 extra. Phrases: take an interest in, show interest, lose interest, interest rate, in your interest, of interest.
examples
- She has a big interest in dinosaurs. tree →
- My interests are football, drawing and reading. tree →
- The bank pays interest on my savings. tree →
- He lost interest in the game after a while. tree →
- Does space interest you? tree →
- It's in your interest to finish your homework. tree →
- Places of interest in London include the Tower. tree →
- Show interest when your friend tells you a story. tree →
- Finnian received that information with respect and interest. tree →
note
Adjectives: interesting (a thing is interesting), interested (a person is interested in something). «Interested in», not «interested on». In money problems, interest is added to the starting amount: save $200 at 5% interest for a year and you have $210.
In the corpora
- Banks pay interest on savings, and they charge interest when you borrow.
- Interest that grows on interest is called compound interest.
- An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.
- Borrowing always has a price called interest, so the total paid back is more than the price tag.
- The minimum payment barely covers the interest, so paying only the minimum keeps a debt going for years.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «interest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.