sputnik

«sputnik» in Mova's school dictionary: Sputnik was the first man-made satellite sent into orbit… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (Sputnik, a sputnik, sputniks)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sputnik was the first man-made satellite sent into orbit around the Earth, by the Soviet Union. tree →

2) Any of the Soviet satellites with that name. tree →

3) The word is Russian for «fellow traveller» or «satellite». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons about space, Sputnik began the space race between the USA and the Soviet Union. It was a metal ball with aerials that sent out beeps. Phrases: Sputnik moment (a sudden shock that makes people work harder).

examples

• Sputnik was the first satellite to orbit the Earth. tree →
• Sputnik sent beeping radio signals. tree →
• Sputnik started the space race. tree →
• The satellite was a shiny metal ball with four long aerials. tree →
• Sputnik orbited the Earth in about 96 minutes. tree →
• We made a model of Sputnik in class. tree →

note

Usually written with a capital S as a name. From Russian. Maths: Sputnik orbited in about 96 minutes, so about 15 orbits a day (24 × 60 ÷ 96 = 15).

In the corpora

• In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.
• The first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957.

Trees and pragmatics

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