snack

«snack» in Mova's school dictionary: a small amount of food eaten between meals — 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, verb (snack, snacks, snacked, snacking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A snack is a small amount of food eaten between meals. tree →

2) To snack is to eat a snack. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: things counted or bought; snacks shared among children; sharing equally is division; snacks per child is a rate. Health: healthy snacks like fruit, nuts or yogurt; not too much sugar. Everyday: snack time, a snack bar, after-school snack.

examples

• Each child gets 2 snacks. tree →
• A snack costs $1.25. tree →
• She packed 24 snacks for 8 friends. tree →
• How many snacks are left? tree →
• An apple is a healthy snack. tree →
• We have snack time at ten o'clock. tree →
• Try not to snack on sweets before dinner. tree →
• The snack bar at the pool sells ice lollies. tree →
• "My Father," begs the Prince, "there's an old fellow of mine here; please let him take a snack with us." tree →

note

Countable noun, regular verb. Sharing snacks equally is division; snacks per child is a rate. Trap: none.

In the corpora

• Small spends like coffees and snacks add up fast; managing money means knowing what comes in and what goes out.
• Food adverts aimed at children have rules about what they can show; a snack does not make a show better.
• Cinemas earn a big part of their money from snacks, because much of the ticket money goes to the film company.
• They taste nutty and crunchy, and for her they are just a normal snack.
• But wild bugs from the garden are never a snack, because they can carry germs and poisons.

Trees and pragmatics

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