privacy
part of speech
noun (privacy — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Being away from other people so they cannot see or hear you: "the privacy of your bedroom". tree →
2) Keeping your personal information, like your address, passwords or photos, safe from people who should not have it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In online safety lessons pupils learn to protect their privacy: not sharing their full name, address, school or passwords, and using privacy settings. In everyday life people need privacy in the bathroom or when changing. Phrases: privacy settings, respect someone's privacy, in privacy, invasion of privacy.
examples
- Please knock to give your sister some privacy. tree →
- Check the privacy settings on the game before you play. tree →
- Never share your password, so you keep your privacy online. tree →
- Reading someone else's diary does not respect their privacy. tree →
- The changing rooms have curtains for privacy. tree →
- The app asked for our address, so Dad checked its privacy rules. tree →
- Everyone has a right to privacy. tree →
note
Uncountable: "some privacy", not "a privacy". The adjective is "private". Pronounced "PRIV-a-see" in the UK and "PRY-va-see" in the USA. Safety: keeping your privacy online means not telling strangers where you live or go to school. Privacy does not mean keeping secrets that hurt you; tell a trusted adult about anything that worries you.
In the corpora
- Young famous people, like teenage TV actors, deserve even more privacy, because they are still children.
- People who did not agree to be filmed have their faces blurred; adults and children have a right to their privacy.
- Everyone also deserves privacy: their own room, their diary, their messages and their time in the bathroom.
- His dad blocks and reports the account and turns on the privacy settings.
- Some fights are about privacy.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «privacy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.