ticket
part of speech
noun (ticket, tickets)
meaning for a pupil
1) A ticket is a small paper or card that shows you paid to ride, watch a show or go in. tree →
2) A ticket is a paper with a number for a raffle or lottery. tree →
3) A parking or speeding ticket is a paper telling a driver to pay a fine. tree →
4) A ticket in a shop or queue shows your turn or price. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: a thing bought and sold at a price; tickets per person, money from tickets: cost = number of tickets × price; adult and child prices. Everyday: bus ticket, train ticket, cinema ticket, return ticket, ticket office, raffle ticket.
examples
- A ticket costs 8 dollars. tree →
- They sold 120 tickets. tree →
- An adult ticket costs 10 dollars and a child ticket 5. tree →
- How much do 4 tickets cost? tree →
- Keep your ticket until the end of the trip. tree →
- Dad got a parking ticket. tree →
- We bought raffle tickets for the school fair. tree →
- Show your ticket at the gate. tree →
- She could never have the heart, he thought, to send him a ticket to go and see it, if it had been real. tree →
note
Countable: a ticket, tickets. Cost = number of tickets × price; tickets = money ÷ price. Trap: when adult and child prices differ, multiply each group by its own price before adding.
In the corpora
- A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another.
- A family ticket is only a good deal after checking: add up the single tickets for your family and compare.
- Cinemas earn a big part of their money from snacks, because much of the ticket money goes to the film company.
- A return ticket takes you there and brings you back: it is 2 journeys.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ticket» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.