lifesaving

«lifesaving» in Mova's school dictionary: saving or able to save someone's life, like lifesaving… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (lifesaving, life-saving); noun (lifesaving, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Lifesaving means saving or able to save someone's life, like lifesaving medicine. tree →

2) Lifesaving is the skill of rescuing people from drowning, taught in swimming and lifeguard classes. tree →

sense in the lessons

Health and safety: lifesaving skills, CPR, defibrillators; swimming badges; Surf Life Saving clubs in Australia and New Zealand. It tells the reader something can rescue people.

examples

• She learned lifesaving at the swimming pool. tree →
• The defibrillator is a lifesaving machine. tree →
• Vaccines are lifesaving. tree →
• He got a badge in lifesaving. tree →
• Learning CPR is a lifesaving skill. tree →
• The lifeguards did a lifesaving rescue. tree →

note

Also written «life-saving». Related: lifeguard, lifesaver.

Trees and pragmatics

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