millilitre

«millilitre» in Mova's school dictionary: a very small unit for measuring liquid — 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 (millilitre, millilitres)

meaning for a pupil

1) A millilitre is a very small unit for measuring liquid. A litre has 1000 millilitres; a teaspoon holds about 5 millilitres. tree →

2) It is written ml or mL. tree →

sense in the lessons

a unit of volume for drinks, medicine, water and juice; problems change millilitres into litres or share liquid into cups; in science you measure liquids in millilitres with a measuring cylinder; in everyday life medicine doses and can sizes are in ml

examples

• A bottle holds 500 millilitres of water. tree →
• She pours 250 millilitres into each glass. tree →
• How many millilitres are in 2 litres? tree →
• The jug has 1200 millilitres of juice. tree →
• Take 5 ml of medicine, as the doctor said. tree →
• A can of soda holds 330 ml. tree →
• Fill the measuring cylinder to 50 millilitres. tree →
• A raindrop is much less than one millilitre. tree →

note

A unit, not a thing counted. 1000 millilitres = 1 litre. British spelling of milliliter (US). Trap: change litres to millilitres before you add or compare. Safety: medicine is measured with the spoon or syringe that comes with it, not a kitchen spoon.

In the corpora

• One kilogram is 1000 grams, and one litre is 1000 millilitres.
• 2 litres of juice is 2000 millilitres; cups of 250 millilitres hold it all in 2000 ÷ 250 = 8 cups.
• A litre is 1000 millilitres, and a kilogram is 1000 grams.
• A litre is 1000 millilitres (ml).
• To find how many cups a bottle fills, turn the litres into millilitres, then see how many cups fit in them.

Trees and pragmatics

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