mantle

«mantle» in Mova's school dictionary: the thick hot layer of rock inside the Earth, between the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mantle, mantles); verb (mantle — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) In science, the mantle is the thick hot layer of rock inside the Earth, between the crust and the core. tree →

2) A mantle is a duty or important role that passes from one person to another, as in «take on the mantle». tree →

3) (old) A mantle is a loose cloak without sleeves. tree →

4) A mantle can be a covering of something, like «a mantle of snow». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, the Earth's layers are crust, mantle, outer core and inner core; the mantle is very hot and moves slowly, which moves the plates and causes earthquakes and volcanoes. In stories, a knight wears a mantle and a hero takes up the mantle of a leader. Phrases: the Earth's mantle, take on the mantle, a mantle of snow.

examples

• The mantle lies under the Earth's crust. tree →
• Rock in the mantle moves very slowly. tree →
• The mantle is much thicker than the crust. tree →
• A mantle of snow covered the hills. tree →
• The queen wore a red velvet mantle. (old) tree →
• She took on the mantle of team captain. tree →
• Heat from the mantle helps push the plates. tree →
• "It's like a green silk mantle worked with flowers," said the Princess, smiling. tree →

note

Countable noun. Do not confuse with «mantel» (mantelpiece), the shelf over a fireplace — they sound the same. Myth: the mantle is not all liquid lava; it is mostly solid rock that flows very slowly.

In the corpora

• Nobody has ever been to the mantle or the core; we know about them by studying how earthquake waves travel through the Earth.
• The crust and the stiff top of the mantle together form the lithosphere, the hard shell that is broken into plates.
• The plates are always moving, very slowly, about as fast as your fingernails grow, carried on the slowly flowing mantle below.
• Diamond is pure carbon squeezed deep in the mantle, about 150 km down, and carried up by rare volcanic pipes.
• The Earth has a thin rocky crust, a thick hot mantle, a liquid iron outer core and a solid iron inner core.

Trees and pragmatics

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