mosaic

«mosaic» in Mova's school dictionary: A picture or pattern made by putting together many small… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a mosaic, mosaics)

meaning for a pupil

1) A picture or pattern made by putting together many small pieces of coloured stone, glass or tile. tree →

2) Something made of many different parts mixed together (a mosaic of cultures). tree →

sense in the lessons

In history: Romans made mosaic floors. In art lessons: pupils make paper mosaics. In maths: mosaics and tiling connect with shapes and tessellation. Phrases: mosaic floor, Roman mosaic, a mosaic of.

examples

• We saw a Roman mosaic of a dolphin on the floor. tree →
• In art we made a mosaic from tiny squares of paper. tree →
• The church window is a glass mosaic. tree →
• The city is a mosaic of different cultures. tree →
• The mosaic used over 1,000 tiny tiles. tree →
• Square tiles fit together well in a mosaic. tree →
• Then he went on through richly-furnished chambers, over mosaic floors, amid gorgeous pictures. tree →

note

Countable. Said "moh-ZAY-ik". In maths, a mosaic of shapes that fit with no gaps is a tessellation; to find how many tiles, divide the area to cover by the area of one tile.

Trees and pragmatics

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