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# analogue

«analogue» in Mova's school dictionary: **An analogue clock or watch has hands that move around a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (analogue; US analog); noun (an analogue, analogues)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An analogue clock or watch has hands that move around a dial instead of showing numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#m1)

2) Analogue describes old-style machines that work with smooth changes, not with digital numbers, like a vinyl record or an old radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#m2)

3) As a noun, an analogue is something that is like something else and can be compared with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths, children learn to tell the time on an analogue clock, reading the hour hand and the minute hand, and compare it with a digital clock. In science and technology, analogue is the opposite of digital. Phrases: analogue clock, analogue watch, analogue and digital.

### examples

- Can you read the time on an analogue clock? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#x1)
- The analogue clock in our classroom shows half past two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#x2)
- My watch is analogue, so it has hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#x3)
- Grandpa still listens to an analogue radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#x4)
- Draw the hands on the analogue clock to show quarter to five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#x5)
- A digital clock shows 3:15, and an analogue clock shows the same time with hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#x6)
- Vinyl records are analogue sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/#x7)

### note

British, Irish, Australian and NZ spelling: analogue; American spelling: analog. Opposite: digital. On an analogue clock the short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows the minutes; each number on the dial means 5 minutes for the minute hand.

### In the corpora

- [On an analogue clock the short hand shows the hour, the long hand shows the minutes, and each number means 5 minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/263-clocks-calendars-and-planning/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «analogue» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/analogue/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.