plunger

«plunger» in Mova's school dictionary: a tool with a rubber cup on a stick, used to clear a… — 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 plunger, plungers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A plunger is a tool with a rubber cup on a stick, used to clear a blocked sink or toilet by pushing and pulling. tree →

2) A plunger is a part that slides in and out of a tube, like in a syringe, a cafetière (French press) or a pump. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: unblocking a toilet with a plunger. In science: the plunger of a syringe pushes liquid or air; experiments with air pressure. In cooking: a cafetière plunger pushes the coffee down.

examples

• Dad used a plunger to unblock the sink. tree →
• Push the plunger slowly to squeeze out the water. tree →
• The nurse pressed the syringe plunger. tree →
• Press the plunger on the cafetière to make the coffee. tree →
• The plunger made a loud sucking sound. tree →
• Pull back the plunger to fill the syringe with air. tree →

note

Countable. From «plunge» (push or dive in). It works by changing air or water pressure.

In the corpora

• Pulling back a syringe's plunger makes more room inside, the pressure drops, and the outside air pushes water in.

Trees and pragmatics

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