menu

«menu» in Mova's school dictionary: a list of the food and drinks you can choose in a café or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a menu, menus)

meaning for a pupil

1) A menu is a list of the food and drinks you can choose in a café or restaurant. tree →

2) A menu is the food planned for a meal or a day. tree →

3) On a computer or phone, a menu is a list of choices on the screen. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, pupils read menus to choose and pay; in maths problems, menus with prices are used for adding costs and giving change. In computing, you open a menu and click an option. Phrases: "on the menu", "kids' menu", "set menu", "drop-down menu", "main menu".

examples

• Can we see the menu, please? tree →
• Fish and chips is on the menu today. tree →
• The kids' menu has pizza and pasta. tree →
• The school lunch menu changes every week. tree →
• Click the menu and choose "Save". tree →
• Using the menu, work out the cost of two burgers and a drink. tree →
• Go back to the main menu to start the game. tree →

note

Countable: menus (not menues). Comes from French. In maths problems, read prices carefully: £, $, pence and cents.

In the corpora

• Vivid example: in Auckland, Freya and her dad sit on the sofa with the TV menu open.
• And practice fits anywhere: spell the signs, the menu and the car number plates on the way to school.
• Spelling can be practised anywhere: signs, menus, number plates.
• Menu, restaurant and café are French words used in English.

Trees and pragmatics

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