moment

«moment» in Mova's school dictionary: a very short time — 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 (moment, moments)

meaning for a pupil

1) A moment is a very short time. «Wait a moment» means wait a little. tree →

2) A moment is also one exact point in time: «at that moment». tree →

3) An important time can be called a moment: a big moment, a proud moment. tree →

sense in the lessons

a word of the story for a short time; «at the moment» means now; «at that moment» marks a point in the story; rarely a number; phrases «just a moment», «in a moment» (soon), «for the moment», «the moment that» (as soon as)

examples

• At that moment, Ben had 6 apples. tree →
• Wait a moment while I count. tree →
• At the moment, there are 20 birds on the tree. tree →
• I'll be there in a moment. tree →
• Winning the race was her proudest moment. tree →
• The moment the bell rang, everyone ran outside. tree →
• Just a moment, I'm on the phone. tree →
• For a moment, nobody spoke. tree →
• At that moment my dishes disappeared!" tree →

note

Carries no number. «At that moment» marks which state of the story you look at. No operation clue. «At the moment» = now; «in a moment» = soon. Trap: do not confuse moment with «minute» as a unit; a moment has no fixed length.

In the corpora

• Good secrets are about timing, like a surprise party that ends in a happy moment.
• A reputation can grow from one small moment repeated as «always»; one bad week is not a whole reputation.
• It shows the worst moments, because what is new and unusual today is what makes the news.
• Documentary shows about real hospitals film real patients who agreed; they show the exciting moments chosen from hundreds of hours.
• A stunt double is a trained stunt performer who stands in for an actor in the dangerous moments.

Trees and pragmatics

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