windscreen

«windscreen» in Mova's school dictionary: The large glass window at the front of a car, bus or… — 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 windscreen, windscreens; UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ)

meaning for a pupil

The large glass window at the front of a car, bus or other vehicle. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and road safety: clear the windscreen of ice before driving; windscreen wipers clear rain. In science: windscreens are made of special safety glass. In the USA and Canada the same thing is called a «windshield».

examples

• Dad scraped the ice off the windscreen. tree →
• Rain ran down the windscreen. tree →
• Turn on the windscreen wipers! tree →
• A stone cracked the windscreen on the motorway. tree →
• Bugs splatted against the windscreen. tree →
• The parking ticket was stuck under the windscreen wiper. tree →

note

Countable. UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ: windscreen; USA/Canada: windshield. Safety: a clear windscreen is needed for the driver to see.

In the corpora

• Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving eyelids, so its tongue is its windscreen wiper.
• Some cars have a rain sensor that shines invisible light at the windscreen and switches the wipers on when raindrops change the reflection.

Trees and pragmatics

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