rectangular

«rectangular» in Mova's school dictionary: shaped like a rectangle, with four straight sides and… — 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

adjective (rectangular)

meaning for a pupil

1) Rectangular means shaped like a rectangle, with four straight sides and square corners. tree →

2) A rectangular box or room (a cuboid, or rectangular prism) has rectangle faces. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: describes a field, garden, room, box or pool with length and width; leads to area, perimeter or volume; rectangular prism. In everyday life: rectangular tables, rugs, swimming pools, envelopes. In science: crystals and bricks with rectangular faces.

examples

• A rectangular garden is 12 m long and 7 m wide. tree →
• How much fence goes around the rectangular field? tree →
• A rectangular box is 4 by 3 by 2 inches. tree →
• The rectangular pool has an area of 50 square meters. tree →
• Our classroom has rectangular tables. tree →
• A brick is a rectangular block. tree →
• A shoebox is a rectangular prism. tree →
• The envelope is rectangular, not square. tree →

note

Tells you to use length and width (and height for a box). Fence goes around (perimeter), carpet or grass covers (area), water fills (volume = length × width × height). Trap: picking the wrong one of these. A rectangular prism has 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 corners (vertices).

In the corpora

• In the UK, circular road signs give orders, triangular signs warn and rectangular signs give information.

Trees and pragmatics

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