milky

«milky» in Mova's school dictionary: Containing a lot of milk, or made with milk: «milky tea»… — 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

adjective (milky, milkier, milkiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Containing a lot of milk, or made with milk: «milky tea», «milky coffee». tree →

2) White and cloudy like milk: «milky water». tree →

3) «The Milky Way» is our galaxy, which looks like a pale band of light across the night sky. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons «milky» describes cloudy liquids in experiments: limewater turns milky when carbon dioxide is bubbled through it. In space lessons: the Sun and Earth are in the Milky Way galaxy. In everyday life: «milky tea», «milky drink before bed», «milky skin».

examples

• Granny likes her tea very milky. tree →
• The limewater turned milky in the experiment. tree →
• We saw the Milky Way on a dark night in the countryside. tree →
• The river looked milky after the rain. tree →
• Our Sun is one star in the Milky Way. tree →
• I have a milky drink before bed. tree →
• The opal stone has a milky colour. tree →

note

Comparative: milkier, milkiest (y → i). «The Milky Way» is a name, so it has capitals. In science, a liquid going «milky» or «cloudy» is a clue that a new substance has formed.

In the corpora

• A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Milky Way.
• People everywhere have made pictures of the sky: Aboriginal Australians see an Emu in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.
• Aboriginal Australians see the Emu in the Sky in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.
• The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars across its centre and spiral arms curling out from it.
• The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but only about 1,000 light years thick in most places.

Trees and pragmatics

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