science

«science» in Mova's school dictionary: Finding out how the world works by watching carefully… — 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

noun (science, sciences)

meaning for a pupil

1) Finding out how the world works by watching carefully, asking questions, testing ideas and measuring. tree →

2) A school subject that studies living things, materials, forces, the Earth and space. tree →

3) A particular branch of knowledge, such as physics, chemistry or biology. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school, science lessons include experiments, fair tests, predictions, observations and results. Scientists change their ideas when new evidence appears. In stories, "science fiction" imagines future or impossible science. Phrases: science lesson, science fair, science project, science fiction, computer science, the science of something.

examples

• We did an experiment in science today. tree →
• Science helps us understand why ice melts. tree →
• Lily won a prize at the science fair. tree →
• Biology is the science of living things. tree →
• My favourite school subject is science. tree →
• In a fair test you change only one thing at a time. tree →
• Science fiction stories often take place in space. tree →
• Great names shine there, in science and in art, names that are unknown to us. tree →

note

Usually uncountable ("I like science"), but countable for branches: "the natural sciences". A person who does science is a "scientist"; the adjective is "scientific". Spelling trap: s-c-i-e-n-c-e, the "sc" sounds like "s". Science does not "prove" things forever; it gives the best explanation from the evidence so far.

In the corpora

• Many future jobs will be about making technology fair and safe for people; maths, science, writing and kindness all help.
• Good science means checking the story against what real animals do.
• Some exciting claims are proven, others are still argued about, and good science says which is which.
• The big chart of coloured squares on the science-classroom wall is the periodic table, and every square is one element.
• A week later Mrs Okafor put them in the same group for science.

Trees and pragmatics

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