nozzle

«nozzle» in Mova's school dictionary: A narrow tube or spout at the end of a hose, pipe or can… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a nozzle, nozzles)

meaning for a pupil

A narrow tube or spout at the end of a hose, pipe or can that controls how a liquid or gas comes out. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: garden hose nozzle, petrol pump nozzle, ketchup bottle nozzle, icing bag nozzle. In science: a narrow nozzle makes water come out faster and further. Safety: never point a hose or spray nozzle at someone's face, and do not look into a spray nozzle.

examples

• Turn the nozzle to make a fine spray. tree →
• Dad put the petrol nozzle into the car. tree →
• The ketchup nozzle got blocked. tree →
• Use a star nozzle to pipe the icing. tree →
• Firefighters held the big nozzle of the hose. tree →
• Point the nozzle away from your eyes. tree →
• Squeeze the trigger on the nozzle to water the plants. tree →

note

Double «z»: nozzle. Countable: a nozzle, nozzles. When the opening is smaller, the same amount of water has to move faster, so it shoots further.

In the corpora

• Let an adult help with a hot glue gun, and never touch the nozzle or the hot glue, because it burns skin.

Trees and pragmatics

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