puppet

«puppet» in Mova's school dictionary: a toy figure of a person or animal that you move with… — 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 puppet, puppets)

meaning for a pupil

1) A puppet is a toy figure of a person or animal that you move with your hand, strings or sticks to act out a show. tree →

2) A person or group controlled by someone else, who does what they are told. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used at school in drama and crafts: making sock puppets, finger puppets and putting on a puppet show. In history: a "puppet ruler" is controlled by another country. Kinds: hand puppet, glove puppet, finger puppet, string puppet (marionette), shadow puppet.

examples

• We made sock puppets in art. tree →
• The puppet show was very funny. tree →
• Pinocchio was a wooden puppet. tree →
• She moved the puppet's mouth with her hand. tree →
• Shadow puppets make shapes on the wall. tree →
• The string puppet danced across the stage. tree →
• The king was only a puppet of the rich lords. tree →
• The puppet which plays so important a part in this story is worthy of a special examination. tree →

note

Countable: a puppet. Person who works a puppet: a puppeteer. A string puppet is also called a marionette.

In the corpora

• In The Lion King musical the puppets are designed so you see both the actor and the animal.

Trees and pragmatics

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