sprite

«sprite» in Mova's school dictionary: A small magical creature like a fairy or elf in stories… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sprite, sprites); brand (Sprite)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small magical creature like a fairy or elf in stories, often playful or mischievous. tree →

2) (computing) A small picture or character that moves around in a computer game, such as in Scratch. tree →

3) (science) A rare flash of red light high above a thunderstorm. tree →

4) Sprite (with a capital S) is a lemon-lime fizzy drink brand. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, sprites are water or air spirits in myths and fairy tales; in coding lessons with Scratch, pupils program sprites (like the cat) to move, talk and react. In science, «red sprites» are a kind of upper-air lightning photographed from planes and space.

examples

• In Scratch, make the sprite move ten steps. tree →
• A water sprite lived in the river in the fairy tale. tree →
• Change your sprite's costume to make it look like it's walking. tree →
• The mischievous sprite hid the farmer's boots. tree →
• Red sprites flash high above thunderclouds. tree →
• Can I have a Sprite with my lunch? tree →
• “That's glorious fun!” said the sprite. tree →

note

Countable. Say to rhyme with «bright». Similar: fairy, pixie, elf. In Scratch, a sprite is any object on the stage besides the background.

In the corpora

• une limonade is fizzy lemonade, like Sprite; un citron pressé is fresh squeezed lemon with water and sugar.

Trees and pragmatics

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