polar

«polar» in Mova's school dictionary: To do with the North Pole or the South Pole, or the very… — 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

adjective (polar — no comparative)

meaning for a pupil

1) To do with the North Pole or the South Pole, or the very cold areas around them. tree →

2) Completely opposite: "polar opposites". tree →

3) In science, to do with the poles of a magnet or of the Earth. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science, polar regions are the Arctic around the North Pole and the Antarctic around the South Pole; they are very cold, icy and have long days in summer and long nights in winter. Polar animals such as polar bears, penguins and seals are adapted to cold. Phrases: polar bear, polar region, polar ice caps, polar opposites, polar night.

examples

• Polar bears live in the Arctic. tree →
• Penguins live in the southern polar region. tree →
• The polar ice caps are melting as the Earth warms. tree →
• In polar winters the sun may not rise for weeks. tree →
• My brother and I are polar opposites: he is loud and I am quiet. tree →
• Explorers need special clothes for polar journeys. tree →
• We made a model of a polar habitat in class. tree →
• Birds from the Polar regions came flying here, and of course the stork and the swallow were not absent. tree →

note

It is an adjective only; you cannot say "more polar" in normal use. "Polar" comes from "pole". Myth: polar bears and penguins do not live together; polar bears are in the Arctic (north) and penguins mostly in the Antarctic and the southern seas. "Polar opposites" means as different as can be.

In the corpora

• The soles of a polar bear's paws have fur and small bumps that grip the ice and keep the feet warm.
• Polar bears hunt seals by waiting at breathing holes for hours or even days.
• Polar bear skin is black and its fur is made of see-through hollow hairs that look white because they scatter light.
• Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and lived earlier than Velociraptor; most raptors were small.
• Polar bears live only in the Arctic and wild penguins only in the southern hemisphere, so they never meet in nature.

Trees and pragmatics

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