smartphone

«smartphone» in Mova's school dictionary: a mobile phone that is also a small computer: it can go… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a smartphone, smartphones)

meaning for a pupil

A smartphone is a mobile phone that is also a small computer: it can go online, take photos, play games, use apps and make calls. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life, online safety lessons and computing lessons (apps, screen time, passwords); in stories it shows modern life; phrases: on my smartphone, smartphone app, smartphone screen.

examples

• Mum checks the bus times on her smartphone. tree →
• A smartphone can take photos and videos. tree →
• My brother is not allowed a smartphone until he is twelve. tree →
• Never share your smartphone passcode with strangers. tree →
• The smartphone battery died halfway through the trip. tree →
• We used a smartphone app to identify birds. tree →
• Too much smartphone time before bed can spoil sleep. tree →

note

Countable: a smartphone, two smartphones. Written as one word. People often just say «phone». Uses «a» (a smartphone).

In the corpora

• The first mobile phones in the 1980s were as big as bricks, and from 2007 smartphones with touch screens began to spread.
• An anachronism is something that belongs to another time, such as a Roman soldier with a wristwatch or a Viking with a smartphone.
• The World Wide Web went public in 1991, YouTube started in 2005, and smartphones became common after 2007.
• The World Wide Web went public in 1991, YouTube started in 2005 and smartphones became common after 2007.

Trees and pragmatics

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