medal

«medal» in Mova's school dictionary: a flat piece of metal, often round and on a ribbon, given… — 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 medal, medals); verb (medal, medals, medalled, medalling — in sport, rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A medal is a flat piece of metal, often round and on a ribbon, given as a prize or to honour someone. tree →

2) In sport, to medal means to win a medal. tree →

sense in the lessons

In sport, the Olympic Games give gold, silver and bronze medals for first, second and third places. Soldiers, police and brave people get medals for courage. In maths problems, medal tables are counted and compared. Phrases: "gold medal", "win a medal", "medal table".

examples

• She won a gold medal for swimming. tree →
• Everyone who finished the race got a medal. tree →
• The firefighter got a medal for bravery. tree →
• Our team came third and won bronze medals. tree →
• Grandad keeps his medals in a box. tree →
• The country with the most gold medals tops the medal table. tree →
• In the course of the year he won the little silver prize medal of the Academy, and afterwards he gained the great one too. tree →

note

Countable. Homophone: "meddle" (to interfere) sounds the same. Gold is first, silver second, bronze third. In British spelling the verb is medalled; American is medaled.

In the corpora

• A bruise is an injury, not a medal, even when people talk about it like one.
• Kieran rolled up his sleeve to show his scar from a street fight like it was a medal.
• Big brothers often tease, and a tiny bit of praise from them can feel like a medal.
• Britain's Sky Brown won an Olympic bronze medal in skateboarding at 13, in Tokyo.
• An Olympic gold medal is mostly silver with a coating of gold; the rules say at least 6 g of gold.

Trees and pragmatics

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