polo
part of speech
noun (polo, uncountable — the sport; a polo, polos — a polo shirt or neck)
meaning for a pupil
1) Polo is a game played on horseback in which two teams use long-handled wooden mallets to hit a small ball into the other team's goal. tree →
2) Water polo is a team game played in a swimming pool, where swimmers throw a ball into a goal. tree →
3) A polo, or polo shirt, is a short-sleeved cotton shirt with a collar and a few buttons at the neck. tree →
4) A polo neck is a jumper with a high, folded collar round the neck (in the USA a turtleneck). tree →
sense in the lessons
Polo is one of the oldest team sports, from ancient Persia; it is linked with rich people because horses are expensive. Many schools have a polo shirt as part of the uniform. Water polo is an Olympic sport. Marco Polo was a famous Italian traveller to China (a name). Phrases: «polo shirt», «polo neck», «water polo», «polo match».
examples
- The polo players galloped after the ball. tree →
- Our school uniform is a blue polo shirt and grey trousers. tree →
- I joined the water polo club at the swimming pool. tree →
- Grandma knitted me a woolly polo neck jumper. tree →
- Polo was first played in ancient Persia. tree →
- Marco Polo travelled all the way to China. tree →
- A polo team has four riders. tree →
- He told him that he wished him to play at polo. tree →
note
The sport is uncountable: «play polo», not «a polo». The shirt is countable: «two polos». Capital P for Marco Polo and for the brand of mint sweets (Polo mints, UK).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «polo» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.