segment
part of speech
noun (a segment, segments) — said "SEG-ment"; verb (segment, segments, segmented, segmenting) — said "seg-MENT"
meaning for a pupil
1) A segment is one of the parts something is divided into, like a segment of an orange. tree →
2) In maths, a line segment is the part of a line between two end points. tree →
3) A segment of a circle is the part cut off by a straight line (a chord). tree →
4) A segment of a TV or radio show is one part of it. tree →
5) (verb) To segment means to divide into parts; in phonics, to segment a word means to split it into its sounds: c-a-t. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, line segments have length that you can measure; triangles have three line segments as sides. In science, insects and worms have bodies made of segments. In reading, pupils segment words into sounds to spell them. Phrases: line segment, segment of an orange, body segment, a short segment.
examples
- I ate an orange segment by segment. tree →
- Draw a line segment 6 centimetres long. tree →
- The orange had 10 segments, so 5 children got 2 each. tree →
- A worm's body is made of many segments. tree →
- A triangle has three line segments for sides. tree →
- Segment the word "ship" into sounds: sh-i-p. tree →
- The news had a short segment on the school fair. tree →
note
Countable. Noun stressed on the first part (SEG-ment), verb often on the second. In maths, a line goes on for ever both ways, a ray has one end, and a line segment has two ends. A circle segment is not the same as a sector (a "pizza slice" from the centre).
In the corpora
- Centipedes are fast hunters with one pair of legs on each body segment and venom claws to catch insects.
- Blending is pushing sounds together to read a word; segmenting is splitting a word into its sounds to spell it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «segment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.