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# antarctic

«antarctic» in Mova's school dictionary: **the very cold region around the South Pole, including the…** — 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

adjective (Antarctic); proper noun (the Antarctic — the region around the South Pole)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The Antarctic is the very cold region around the South Pole, including the continent of Antarctica and the seas around it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antarctic/#m1)

2) Antarctic describes things from or about that region, like Antarctic ice or Antarctic animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antarctic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography it is one of the polar regions, opposite to the Arctic at the North Pole. Antarctica is a continent covered in thick ice, with no towns and no people living there all the time; only scientists stay for a while. In science penguins, seals and whales live in or around the Antarctic. Phrases: «the Antarctic Circle», «the Antarctic Ocean» (Southern Ocean).

### examples

- Penguins live in the Antarctic, not the Arctic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antarctic/#x1)
- The Antarctic is the coldest place on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antarctic/#x2)
- Scientists study the Antarctic ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antarctic/#x3)
- Antarctic winters are long and dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antarctic/#x4)
- Explorers crossed the Antarctic on skis and sledges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antarctic/#x5)
- Whales feed in Antarctic waters in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antarctic/#x6)

### note

Usually written with a capital A. Spelled «Antarctic» with a c in the middle: Ant-ARC-tic. Trap: polar bears live in the Arctic (north), penguins in the Antarctic (south); they never meet in the wild. Antarctica is land (a continent); the Arctic is mostly frozen ocean.

### In the corpora

- [The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/13/)
- [The Arctic tern makes one of the longest migrations, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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