olympiad

«olympiad» in Mova's school dictionary: a contest where pupils solve hard problems, for example… — 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 (olympiad, olympiads)

meaning for a pupil

1) An olympiad is a contest where pupils solve hard problems, for example in maths, physics or chess. tree →

2) An Olympiad is also the four years between Olympic Games, or the Olympic Games themselves. tree →

sense in the lessons

a contest: problems, points, places and pupils taking part; in school: maths olympiads, science olympiads; in history: the ancient Greeks counted time in olympiads of four years

examples

• 24 pupils took part in the olympiad. tree →
• The olympiad has 6 problems. tree →
• She scored 35 points at the olympiad. tree →
• Each problem is worth 7 points. tree →
• Our school won two medals at the maths olympiad. tree →
• He practised old olympiad problems every evening. tree →
• The chess olympiad brings together teams from many countries. tree →
• An olympiad in ancient Greece lasted four years. tree →

note

Story word; olympiad problems often hide a trick, so read every word. Full marks = problems × points each (6 × 7 = 42). Comes from «Olympic».

In the corpora

• Every olympiad number puzzle gets easier if you write the digits first, then the words.
• Films, cartoons and games are full of them, and spotting them is a favourite olympiad puzzle.
• The olympiad pupil keeps the fact and throws away the moan.
• An ethics olympiad is a competition where school teams discuss real dilemmas.
• A strong olympiad answer often looks at rules, results and character together.

Trees and pragmatics

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