pulp
part of speech
noun (pulp — uncountable); verb (pulp, pulps, pulped, pulping); adjective (pulp — of cheap stories)
meaning for a pupil
1) Pulp is a soft, wet, squashed mass, such as the soft inside of a fruit or vegetable. tree →
2) Pulp is the mush of wood or old paper mixed with water that is used to make paper. tree →
3) To pulp something is to crush it into a soft mass. tree →
4) The pulp of a tooth is the soft living inside, with nerves and blood. tree →
5) «Pulp» stories or magazines are cheap, exciting, not very serious ones. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and D&T lessons, children make recycled paper from paper pulp, and learn that wood pulp makes new paper. In cooking, orange juice can be «with pulp» or «smooth». In health lessons, tooth decay that reaches the pulp hurts. «Beat someone to a pulp» is a violent phrase in stories.
examples
- I like orange juice with pulp. tree →
- We made new paper from paper pulp. tree →
- Wood is turned into pulp at the paper mill. tree →
- Mash the fruit into a pulp. tree →
- The unsold books were pulped and recycled. tree →
- The dentist said the pulp of the tooth was fine. tree →
- Grandpa reads old pulp adventure stories. tree →
note
Uncountable noun: «some pulp». Regular verb: pulped. Adjective «pulpy». «Pulp fiction» = cheap, exciting stories.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pulp» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.