sticker
part of speech
noun (sticker, stickers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A sticker is a small picture or label with glue on the back that you can stick on things. tree →
2) A price sticker is a small label in a shop that shows how much something costs. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing that is counted: stickers are collected, bought in sheets, given and lost; in class a teacher may give a sticker for good work; in everyday life stickers go on notebooks, lunch boxes and fridges; phrases: «a sheet of stickers», «a sticker book», «a gold star sticker»
examples
- Anna has 9 stickers and gives 4 to a friend. tree →
- Max buys 3 sheets of stickers with 10 stickers on each. tree →
- Zoe loses a quarter of her stickers. tree →
- The teacher gave me a gold star sticker for my spelling. tree →
- I stuck a dinosaur sticker on my lunch box. tree →
- Mia keeps her stickers in a sticker book. tree →
- Peel the sticker off slowly so it does not tear. tree →
- The price sticker on the toy says 5 dollars. tree →
note
Countable: a sticker, two stickers. The thing being counted; carries no operation clue. Trap: «sheets of stickers» are groups, not single stickers, so 3 sheets of 10 is 3 × 10 stickers. Safety: do not put stickers in your mouth; little children can choke on them.
In the corpora
- Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection.
- Slow down near glass doors and look for stickers on them, because people walk into clean glass and it can break and cut.
- Chloe, who had got a sticker that week, felt hot and jealous and tore the certificate in half.
- Theo said he'd been «at the dentist», but he had no sticker, no leaflet, no numb mouth.
- Real events usually leave traces, like stickers, receipts, photos or a sore mouth.
Trees and pragmatics
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