teapot

«teapot» in Mova's school dictionary: a pot with a handle, a lid and a spout, used for making… — 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 teapot, teapots)

meaning for a pupil

1) A teapot is a pot with a handle, a lid and a spout, used for making and pouring tea. tree →

2) «I'm a Little Teapot» is a children's song with actions. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, tea is made in a teapot or with a teabag in a mug. In kitchen safety, a hot teapot can scald, so children should be careful. In maths and science, a teapot holds a capacity (for example 1 litre) and teaches pouring and measuring. Phrases: «put the kettle on», «a pot of tea», «a storm in a teapot» (US: a big fuss about nothing; UK says «a storm in a teacup»).

examples

• Nan poured the tea from a flowery teapot. tree →
• Warm the teapot before you make the tea. tree →
• Be careful, the teapot is full of hot tea. tree →
• We sang «I'm a Little Teapot» and did the actions. tree →
• The teapot holds 1 litre, so it fills four 250 ml cups. tree →
• The spout of the teapot dripped on the tablecloth. tree →
• In Alice in Wonderland the Dormouse is pushed into a teapot. tree →

note

Countable: a teapot, teapots. One word. UK idiom: «a storm in a teacup» means a lot of fuss about something small.

In the corpora

• She walks off; looking back, she sees them trying to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot.

Trees and pragmatics

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