tripod

«tripod» in Mova's school dictionary: A stand with three legs used to hold a camera, telescope… — 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 tripod, tripods)

meaning for a pupil

1) A stand with three legs used to hold a camera, telescope or other equipment steady. tree →

2) (science) A three-legged metal stand for holding a beaker or dish over a Bunsen burner. tree →

3) Any object or creature with three legs, such as the alien machines in "The War of the Worlds". tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils put a gauze on a tripod above a Bunsen burner to heat water safely. In photography a tripod stops photos from being blurry. In maths and design lessons three legs make a stand stable even on bumpy ground, because three points always sit flat. Phrases: on a tripod, camera tripod.

examples

• Put the beaker on the tripod and gauze. tree →
• The photographer set her camera on a tripod. tree →
• A tripod doesn't wobble, even on uneven ground. tree →
• We watched the stars through a telescope on a tripod. tree →
• In the old story, giant alien tripods walked across England. tree →
• Be careful: the tripod gets hot over the Bunsen burner. tree →
• Next, she placed the tripod over it, and the kettle on top. tree →

note

Countable: a tripod, tripods. "Tri" means three, "pod" means foot (as in tricycle, triangle). Maths fact: three points always lie on one flat plane, which is why a three-legged stool does not rock but a four-legged one can.

In the corpora

• Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger, near the tip.

Trees and pragmatics

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