pure

«pure» in Mova's school dictionary: not mixed with anything else — 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 (pure, purer, purest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Pure means not mixed with anything else. tree →

2) Pure means clean and without dirt, germs or harmful things. tree →

3) Pure can mean complete or total, as in pure luck. tree →

4) Pure means good and without bad thoughts or wrongdoing. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, a pure substance is made of only one thing (pure water, pure gold); most things around us are mixtures, like salt water or air. Mixtures can be separated by filtering, sieving or evaporating to get purer substances. Pure water has no taste, smell or colour and boils at 100 °C; tap water is safe but not totally pure. In everyday life, «pure orange juice» means nothing added. Phrases: «pure water», «pure gold», «pure luck», «pure joy», «pure and simple», «pure air».

examples

• This juice is pure orange, with no sugar added. tree →
• Pure gold is soft and shiny. tree →
• Mountain air is clean and pure. tree →
• It was pure luck that we found the key. tree →
• The baby laughed with pure joy. tree →
• Seawater is not pure; it has salt in it. tree →
• Filtering muddy water makes it purer, but still not safe to drink. tree →
• Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. tree →
• It's pure charity that she is here at all. tree →

note

Comparative purer, superlative purest. Adverb: purely. Noun: purity. «Pure» in science means one substance only; «clean» water may still not be pure. Filtered water is not always safe: germs can pass through simple filters.

In the corpora

• Antlers are pure bone and among the fastest-growing bone of any mammal.
• Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liquid; the drops are pure water, and the salt stays behind.
• Only a few metals, such as gold, are found pure.
• Pure gold is so soft that it scratches easily, so most gold jewellery is gold mixed with other metals.
• In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very.

Trees and pragmatics

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