vitamin

«vitamin» in Mova's school dictionary: tiny natural substances in food that your body needs to… — 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 (a vitamin, vitamins)

meaning for a pupil

1) Vitamins are tiny natural substances in food that your body needs to stay healthy. tree →

2) Each vitamin has a letter name, like vitamin A, B, C, D, E or K. tree →

3) A vitamin can also mean a pill with vitamins in it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and science lessons, fruit and vegetables are full of vitamins; vitamin C (oranges, kiwis, peppers) helps the body heal, vitamin A (carrots) helps eyes, and vitamin D comes from sunlight and helps bones. A balanced diet gives you the vitamins you need. In safety, vitamin pills are medicine and only taken with an adult. Phrases: vitamin C, full of vitamins, vitamins and minerals.

examples

• Oranges are full of vitamin C. tree →
• Carrots have vitamin A, which is good for your eyes. tree →
• Sunshine helps your skin make vitamin D. tree →
• Eat lots of fruit and vegetables to get your vitamins. tree →
• Sailors long ago got ill without vitamin C. tree →
• Mum takes a vitamin every morning. tree →
• Never eat vitamin pills like sweets; they are medicine. tree →
• Milk and fish have vitamins and minerals. tree →

note

Countable: a vitamin, vitamins. Said «VY-ta-min» in the USA and «VIT-a-min» in the UK; both are right. Myth: more vitamins are not always better; too many pills can be harmful. Vitamins are not the same as minerals (like iron and calcium).

In the corpora

• Gut bacteria help digest food, make some vitamins and protect against harmful germs.
• Carrots are orange because of beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for the eyes.
• Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vegetables such as pepper or leafy greens every day.
• Later sailors learned that lemons and limes prevent scurvy, because they contain vitamin C.
• Taking vitamin C every day does not stop most people catching colds; it might shorten a cold slightly in some studies.

Trees and pragmatics

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