temperature

«temperature» in Mova's school dictionary: Temperature tells how hot or cold something is — 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 (temperature, temperatures)

meaning for a pupil

1) Temperature tells how hot or cold something is. We measure it in degrees with a thermometer. tree →

2) Your body temperature is how warm your body is; normal is about 37 degrees Celsius. tree →

3) To have a temperature (or run a temperature) means to have a fever. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: a measure in degrees that rises or falls; differences between temperatures; reading thermometers and line graphs; negative numbers below zero. Science: water freezes at 0 °C and boils at 100 °C; Celsius and Fahrenheit scales. Everyday: weather forecasts, cooking temperature, taking your temperature when ill.

examples

• The temperature was 15 degrees in the morning. tree →
• It rose by 8 degrees by noon. tree →
• At night the temperature fell 10 degrees. tree →
• How much warmer is it now? tree →
• Water freezes at a temperature of 0 °C. tree →
• The nurse took my temperature. tree →
• Bake the cake at a temperature of 180 degrees. tree →
• The temperature in the Arctic can drop to −40 degrees. tree →

note

Countable: a temperature, temperatures. Rises add and falls subtract; «how much warmer» asks for a difference. Trap: temperatures can go below zero (from −3 to 5 is a rise of 8). Trap: Celsius and Fahrenheit are different scales (water freezes at 32 °F). «Temperature» has four syllables: tem-pra-ture is a common way to say it.

In the corpora

• Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.
• The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.
• The temperature of the nest decides whether the babies will be male or female.
• Vets often take a pet's temperature with a thermometer under the tail, because it gives an accurate reading.
• The rainbow colours of hot springs in Yellowstone come from different bacteria living at different temperatures, some in water near boiling.

Trees and pragmatics

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