scrapbook

«scrapbook» in Mova's school dictionary: A book with blank pages where you stick pictures… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a scrapbook, scrapbooks); verb (scrapbook, scrapbooks, scrapbooked — informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) A book with blank pages where you stick pictures, tickets, photos, cuttings and notes to remember things. tree →

2) Verb: to make scrapbooks as a hobby. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school projects a scrapbook collects pictures and facts on a topic. In everyday life families keep holiday scrapbooks. In stories an old scrapbook found in an attic often holds clues and memories.

examples

• I stuck the concert ticket in my scrapbook. tree →
• Our class made a scrapbook about the rainforest. tree →
• Grandma showed us her old scrapbook. tree →
• The scrapbook had 40 pages, and I filled 25, so 15 are left. tree →
• She scrapbooks every holiday. tree →
• We found clues in a dusty scrapbook in the attic. tree →

note

One word: scrap + book. «Scrap» means a small piece. Plural: scrapbooks.

Trees and pragmatics

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