--- title: S — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 27 description: The 2316 words of the English dictionary under S, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / S # S — The English dictionary · page 27 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · [E](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/E/) · [F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) · [G](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) · [H](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) · [I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/) · [J](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/J/) · [K](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/K/) · [L](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/L/) · [M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/) · [N](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/) · [O](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/O/) · [P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) · [Q](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Q/) · [R](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/R/) · [S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) · [T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/T/) · [U](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/U/) · [V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/V/) · [W](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/) · [X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/X/) · [Y](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Y/) · [Z](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Z/) [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) … [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/26/) **27** [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/28/) … [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/127/) **sep** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Sep or Sep. is a short form of September, the ninth month.[↗](../../sep/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Sep. can be a short form of «separate» in notes.[↗](../../sep/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* As a lower-case «sep», it is usually a fragment of a longer word, not a word on its own.[↗](../../sep/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* On the calendar, Sep is short for September.[↗](../../sep/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The school year in England starts in Sep.[↗](../../sep/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Some people write Sept instead of Sep.[↗](../../sep/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Jan, Feb, Mar …[↗](../../sep/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.[↗](../../sep/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · «Sep» on the label shows the month the jam is best before.[↗](../../sep/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Write the full word, September, in your story.[↗](../../sep/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **sepal** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science) A sepal is one of the small, usually green, leaf-like parts under the petals of a flower that protect the bud before it opens.[↗](../../sepal/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The sepals protect the flower bud.[↗](../../sepal/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Label the petals and sepals on the diagram.[↗](../../sepal/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A rose has five green sepals.[↗](../../sepal/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · When the bud opens, the sepals fold back.[↗](../../sepal/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Count the sepals: there are 5.[↗](../../sepal/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **separable** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* able to be separated or divided.[↗](../../separable/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **separate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* As an adjective, not joined or together; apart or different: two separate rooms, separate piles.[↗](../../separate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* As a verb, to move things or people apart, or to divide a mixture into its parts.[↗](../../separate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To stop living together, as when parents separate.[↗](../../separate/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Separate the red counters from the blue ones.[↗](../../separate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Use a filter to separate the sand from the water.[↗](../../separate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My sister and I have separate bedrooms.[↗](../../separate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep raw chicken separate from salad.[↗](../../separate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A magnet can separate iron filings from sand.[↗](../../separate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We separate our rubbish for recycling.[↗](../../separate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher separated the two boys who were chatting.[↗](../../separate/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Write each answer on a separate line.[↗](../../separate/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Then Rasalu said, "Separate the millet seed from the sand."[↗](../../separate/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.'[↗](../../separate/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.19.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separate/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.'[↗](../../separate/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.16.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separate/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine.[↗](../../separate/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.8.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separate/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.[↗](../../separate/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.41.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separate/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers, (Prophets EZK.42.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separate/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · And he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; (Prophets EZK.41.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separate/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **separated** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Separated means apart, not together any more.[↗](../../separated/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Separated is the past form of separate: to move things or people apart, or to sort them into groups.[↗](../../separated/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* When parents are separated, they have decided to live apart.[↗](../../separated/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I got separated from Mum in the supermarket.[↗](../../separated/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We separated the sand from the water by filtering.[↗](../../separated/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The class was separated into four groups of six.[↗](../../separated/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My parents are separated, so I have two homes.[↗](../../separated/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The twins were separated by only a few minutes.[↗](../../separated/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The magnet separated the iron filings from the sand.[↗](../../separated/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The two countries are separated by a river.[↗](../../separated/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · If you are separated from your group, stay where you are.[↗](../../separated/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Then they bade each other farewell and separated.[↗](../../separated/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; (Torah DEU.4.41, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separated/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · So Lot chose him all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one from the other.[↗](../../separated/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.13.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separated/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him: 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward; (Torah GEN.13.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separated/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Then I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, besides Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, (Writings EZR.8.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separated/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the alien mixture.[↗](../../separated/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.13.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separated/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.[↗](../../separated/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.9.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separated/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **separately** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Separately means apart, not together; one at a time or each on its own.[↗](../../separately/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Wash the white and dark clothes separately.[↗](../../separately/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The twins arrived separately.[↗](../../separately/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Work out each step separately.[↗](../../separately/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Put the glass and paper in the recycling separately.[↗](../../separately/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We tested each magnet separately.[↗](../../separately/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The toys are sold separately.[↗](../../separately/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · They live separately now.[↗](../../separately/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The lawn was as green as if each blade of grass was cleaned separately morning and evening.[↗](../../separately/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **separation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Separation is moving things apart or keeping them apart.[↗](../../separation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Separation is the space or distance between things.[↗](../../separation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Separation is a time when people are apart, especially when parents stop living together.[↗](../../separation/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In science, separation is splitting a mixture into its parts, by filtering, sieving or evaporating.[↗](../../separation/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Filtering is a method of separation.[↗](../../separation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We used a magnet for separation of iron and sand.[↗](../../separation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · After their separation, my parents live in two houses.[↗](../../separation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Puppies can get upset by separation from their mum.[↗](../../separation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep a separation of two metres.[↗](../../separation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The separation of salt from water needs heat.[↗](../../separation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Separation anxiety made the toddler cry when Mum left.[↗](../../separation/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Sieving is used for the separation of rice and flour.[↗](../../separation/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, and this was the most painful separation of all.[↗](../../separation/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.[↗](../../separation/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.42.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../separation/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **separator** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Something that keeps two things apart or divides one thing into parts, such as a line, a wall or a sheet.[↗](../../separator/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A machine that splits a mixture into its parts, for example cream from milk or oil from water.[↗](../../separator/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (computing, writing) A symbol such as a comma, a full stop, a slash or a space that shows where one item ends and the next begins.[↗](../../separator/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (maths) The symbol used to split groups of digits or the whole part from the decimal part, like the point in 3.5.[↗](../../separator/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Put a cardboard separator between the layers of cups so they don't break.[↗](../../separator/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A cream separator spins milk very fast so the cream comes out.[↗](../../separator/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In the list «red, blue, green» the comma is the separator.[↗](../../separator/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the UK and USA the decimal separator is a dot, but in France it is a comma.[↗](../../separator/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The folder has coloured separators for each subject.[↗](../../separator/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We used a magnet as a separator to pull iron filings out of the sand.[↗](../../separator/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Type a space as the separator between the numbers.[↗](../../separator/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer's separator splits the grain from the chaff.[↗](../../separator/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sepsis** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (medicine) A very serious illness that happens when the body's fight against an infection goes wrong and starts to harm its own organs.[↗](../../sepsis/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (older use) Any poisoning of the body by germs from a wound or infection.[↗](../../sepsis/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Sepsis can start from a small cut that gets badly infected.[↗](../../sepsis/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse said sepsis is an emergency and needs treatment fast.[↗](../../sepsis/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Doctors gave him antibiotics to fight the sepsis.[↗](../../sepsis/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Before germs were understood, many soldiers died of sepsis after battles.[↗](../../sepsis/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep a scrape clean so it does not get infected.[↗](../../sepsis/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · If someone is very ill, confused and breathing fast, an adult should ask a doctor about sepsis.[↗](../../sepsis/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Florence Nightingale's clean hospitals helped cut deaths from infection.[↗](../../sepsis/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She spent a week in hospital with sepsis but made a full recovery.[↗](../../sepsis/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sept** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* «Sept» (with a capital S and often a full stop) is a short form of September, the ninth month.[↗](../../sept/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (history) A sept is a branch of a clan or family, especially in Ireland and Scotland.[↗](../../sept/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Sept is also the French word for the number seven.[↗](../../sept/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* School starts again in Sept.[↗](../../sept/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The form said «Sept.» instead of September.[↗](../../sept/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The family belonged to a sept of the clan.[↗](../../sept/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Each sept had its own lands.[↗](../../sept/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The ninth month, Sept, has 30 days.[↗](../../sept/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **september** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* September is the ninth month of the year.[↗](../../september/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It has 30 days.[↗](../../september/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In the northern half of the world (USA, UK, Canada, Ireland) it is the start of autumn and of the school year; in Australia and New Zealand it is the start of spring.[↗](../../september/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* September has 30 days.[↗](../../september/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · School starts in September.[↗](../../september/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She saved 2 dollars a day in September.[↗](../../september/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many days from September to December?[↗](../../september/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · September is the ninth month.[↗](../../september/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In Canada the leaves start to change colour in September.[↗](../../september/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In New Zealand, spring begins in September.[↗](../../september/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · «Thirty days has September, April, June and November.»[↗](../../september/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · It was a lovely starlight night in the beginning of September, and the air was mild and still.[↗](../../september/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned at sacred-texts.com, September 2005.[↗](../../september/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../september/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **septic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (of a wound or body part) Infected with germs so it becomes red, swollen, painful and full of pus.[↗](../../septic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A septic tank is an underground tank where waste from toilets is broken down by bacteria, used by homes not joined to the main sewers.[↗](../../septic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (Australia, UK, slang) A septic is an American; it comes from rhyming slang «septic tank» = «Yank».[↗](../../septic/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") It can sound mocking.[↗](../../septic/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Clean that cut, or it might go septic.[↗](../../septic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · His toe went septic after he stood on a rusty nail.[↗](../../septic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmhouse has a septic tank instead of a sewer pipe.[↗](../../septic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A truck comes every few years to empty the septic tank.[↗](../../septic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The doctor gave her cream for a septic insect bite.[↗](../../septic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (Australia, slang) "Who's the bloke with the accent?" "[↗](../../septic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") Some septic on holiday."[↗](../../septic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash your hands before you touch a blister so it doesn't turn septic.[↗](../../septic/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **sepulchre** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sepulchre is a stone tomb or grave cut into rock or built to hold a dead body.[↗](../../sepulchre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The knight dug beside the old sepulchre.[↗](../../sepulchre/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Inside the sepulchre lay a stone box.[↗](../../sepulchre/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Beneath the sepulchre he found a trap-door.[↗](../../sepulchre/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · And he was buried in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.[↗](../../sepulchre/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.34.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sepulchre/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'[↗](../../sepulchre/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.23.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sepulchre/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.[↗](../../sepulchre/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.5.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sepulchre/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem.[↗](../../sepulchre/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.2.32, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sepulchre/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.[↗](../../sepulchre/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2KI.21.26, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sepulchre/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sequel** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sequel is a book, film or game that continues the story of an earlier one.[↗](../../sequel/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A sequel can also be something that happens after and because of an earlier event.[↗](../../sequel/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The sequel was even better than the first film.[↗](../../sequel/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We are writing a sequel to «The Gruffalo» in class.[↗](../../sequel/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Fans waited three years for the sequel.[↗](../../sequel/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The game's sequel has new levels and characters.[↗](../../sequel/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Is there a sequel to this book?[↗](../../sequel/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · As a sequel to the storm, the river flooded.[↗](../../sequel/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Most sequels keep the same hero.[↗](../../sequel/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · His adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones.[↗](../../sequel/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sequence** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A set of things that come one after another in a certain order.[↗](../../sequence/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (maths) A list of numbers or shapes that follow a rule (2, 4, 6, 8 …).[↗](../../sequence/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* The order in which things happen (put the pictures in sequence).[↗](../../sequence/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A part of a film or a story showing connected events.[↗](../../sequence/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (verb) To put things in order; (science) to find the order of parts in DNA.[↗](../../sequence/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* What is the next number in the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12?[↗](../../sequence/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Put the story pictures in the right sequence.[↗](../../sequence/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The sequence goes up by 5 each time.[↗](../../sequence/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A computer follows a sequence of instructions.[↗](../../sequence/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The film has an exciting chase sequence.[↗](../../sequence/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The pages are out of sequence.[↗](../../sequence/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists sequenced the virus's genes.[↗](../../sequence/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · But I have in one case altered the sequence of events putting the fight with the giant last."[↗](../../sequence/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sequential** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Coming one after another in a fixed order.[↗](../../sequential/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Done step by step, finishing one step before starting the next.[↗](../../sequential/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (maths, computing) Following a sequence or pattern, like numbers that go up by one each time.[↗](../../sequential/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The pages are numbered in sequential order.[↗](../../sequential/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our coding lesson showed that a computer follows sequential instructions.[↗](../../sequential/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The raffle tickets had sequential numbers from 101 to 150.[↗](../../sequential/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Put the pictures of the story in sequential order.[↗](../../sequential/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The recipe gives sequential steps: mix, pour, then bake.[↗](../../sequential/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The house numbers on our street are not sequential, which confuses the postman.[↗](../../sequential/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We read the chapters sequentially, not jumping ahead.[↗](../../sequential/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **sequin** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sequin is a small, flat, shiny disc sewn onto clothes to sparkle.[↗](../../sequin/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old use) A sequin is a gold coin, as in fairy tales about treasure.[↗](../../sequin/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our father left us each a thousand sequins.[↗](../../sequin/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She placed a purse full of sequins in the old woman's hand.[↗](../../sequin/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I dug up the three thousand sequins I had buried.[↗](../../sequin/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) … [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/26/) **27** [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/28/) … [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/127/) - ← previous: [page 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/26/) - next →: [page 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/28/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)