juice
part of speech
noun (juice, juices)
meaning for a pupil
1) Juice is the liquid that comes out of fruit or vegetables, like orange juice or apple juice. tree →
2) Juice is a drink made from this liquid. tree →
3) Juices are liquids in the body that help digest food (stomach juices) or come out of meat when cooked. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, a liquid measured in litres, cups or glasses; also boxes or bottles of juice counted and priced. In science, squeezing fruit to get juice; juice can be acidic, like lemon juice. In everyday life and health: juice has lots of sugar, so water is better for teeth. Phrases: «orange juice», «a glass of juice», «a juice box», «squeeze the juice out».
examples
- Mia drank 300 ml of juice. tree →
- A bottle of juice costs 2 dollars. tree →
- They made 4 litres of juice. tree →
- Each child gets 1 box of juice. tree →
- She squeezed the juice from three lemons. tree →
- Can I have a glass of apple juice, please? tree →
- The peach was so ripe that juice ran down my chin. tree →
- Lemon juice tastes sour. tree →
- Ink he had none, so he used the juice of blackberries or cherries. tree →
note
Usually uncountable: «some juice», «a glass of juice»; «juices» for kinds of juice. Adjective: juicy. An amount of liquid (litres, ml) or a counted item (boxes, bottles). Trap: read whether the number counts bottles or litres.
In the corpora
- Chop red cabbage, soak it in hot water, and you get a purple juice.
- The juice is an indicator: a colour that tells you whether something is an acid or an alkali.
- Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in alkali; not every plant colour changes the same way.
- Chemicals must never be poured into drinks bottles; people have drunk them by mistake from juice and water bottles.
- Water and milk are the best drinks; juice is very sugary, so have only a small glass once a day.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «juice» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.