warehouse

«warehouse» in Mova's school dictionary: a large building where goods are stored before they are… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a warehouse, warehouses)

meaning for a pupil

1) A warehouse is a large building where goods are stored before they are sold or sent to shops. tree →

2) A warehouse can be a big shop selling large amounts of goods cheaply. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, online orders are packed in warehouses; in geography and business lessons, warehouses store goods near roads and ports. In maths word problems, warehouses hold boxes and crates: «a warehouse has 40 shelves with 20 boxes each». Phrases: warehouse worker, store in a warehouse.

examples

• The toys are kept in a big warehouse before they go to the shops. tree →
• Robots move boxes around in the warehouse. tree →
• A warehouse has 40 shelves with 20 boxes on each, so 800 boxes in all. tree →
• My uncle works in a warehouse driving a forklift. tree →
• The old warehouse by the river is now flats. tree →
• Forklifts can be dangerous, so children must not play near a warehouse. tree →

note

Plural: warehouses. One word: ware (goods) + house. Related: storehouse, depot, storeroom. In maths, warehouse problems usually use multiplication (shelves × boxes) or division (sharing among trucks).

In the corpora

• Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.
• When Jake was suspended for fighting, the school phoned his dad at the warehouse.

Trees and pragmatics

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