racket
part of speech
noun (a racket, rackets)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bat with a frame and strings, used to hit the ball in tennis, badminton or squash (also spelled "racquet"). tree →
2) A loud, unpleasant noise: "What a racket!" tree →
3) A dishonest way of getting money, a trick or scam. tree →
sense in the lessons
In PE lessons pupils use rackets for tennis and badminton. In everyday life a parent might say "Stop that racket!" when children are noisy. In safety lessons, a "racket" can mean a scam that tricks people out of money. Phrases: tennis racket, make a racket, what a racket.
examples
- I got a new tennis racket for my birthday. tree →
- Hold the badminton racket loosely. tree →
- The kids made a terrible racket in the playground. tree →
- What a racket those crows are making! tree →
- Squash rackets are smaller than tennis rackets. tree →
- The police stopped a racket that tricked old people. tree →
- Keep your racket away from other players' heads. tree →
- Rooster makes mo' racket dan de hin w'at lay de aig. tree →
note
Countable: a racket, two rackets. Spelling: "racquet" is another spelling for the sports bat, but not for noise. "Make a racket" means make a lot of noise. The scam meaning is used by adults and in the news.
In the corpora
- You keep a safe distance from someone swinging a racket.
- Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket or bat, because it can hit your face.
- Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badminton, because rackets can hit faces.
- A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose.
- Rackets and bats swung near people cause many face and eye injuries.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «racket» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.