zoo

«zoo» in Mova's school dictionary: a place where wild animals are kept so that people can… — 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 (zoo, zoos)

meaning for a pupil

1) A zoo is a place where wild animals are kept so that people can see them and learn about them. tree →

2) Good zoos help rare animals by breeding them and keeping them safe. tree →

3) In speech, «a zoo» means a very busy, noisy place: «The classroom was a zoo». tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: a setting; animals and visitors at the zoo are counted, tickets to the zoo are bought (tickets × price), animals' food per day. In science: animals, habitats, endangered species, keepers who feed and care for them. In everyday life: school trips to the zoo, a petting zoo with farm animals. Phrases: «at the zoo», «a trip to the zoo», «petting zoo», «zookeeper».

examples

• The zoo has 12 lions and 8 tigers. tree →
• 240 people visited the zoo on Monday. tree →
• A ticket to the zoo costs $9. tree →
• How many animals are in the zoo? tree →
• We saw the penguins being fed at the zoo. tree →
• Zoos help to protect animals that are in danger. tree →
• Please don't feed the animals at the zoo. tree →
• The house was a zoo with five children and two dogs. tree →
• So when the largest elephant in the Zoo was carried off by a dragon, the papers gave up pretending--and put ALARMING PLAGUE OF DRAGONS at the top of the paper. tree →

note

Countable: «a zoo». Short for «zoological garden». Maths: a word of the story; it carries no clue for the operation. The numbers belong to the animals, visitors or tickets. Trap: adults' and children's tickets may cost different amounts.

In the corpora

• Many zoos turn elephant dung into compost for gardens, and in some countries it is even made into paper.
• Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branches every night, or of straw in a zoo.
• Wild orangutans hold big leaves over their heads like umbrellas, and zoo orangutans use sacks and blankets the same way.
• Great apes do not swim naturally and can drown, so zoos use water moats around ape islands.
• Zoos keep rescue groups of rare frogs in clean rooms until the wild is safe again.

Trees and pragmatics

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