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# blood

«blood» in Mova's school dictionary: **The red liquid that the heart pumps around your body…** — 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 (blood — uncountable); adjective forms (bloody, bloodless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The red liquid that the heart pumps around your body through tubes called blood vessels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#m1)

2) Family or ancestors: «They are related by blood». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: blood carries oxygen and food to every part of the body and takes waste away; red blood cells carry oxygen, white blood cells fight germs, platelets help a cut stop bleeding; the heart pumps blood through arteries and veins. In first aid: press on a bleeding cut with a clean cloth and tell an adult; do not touch other people's blood without gloves. Phrases: blood vessel, blood cells, lose blood, give blood, blood test, blood type, in your blood, cold-blooded, warm-blooded.

### examples

- Your heart pumps blood all around your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x1)
- Blood carries oxygen from the lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x2)
- There was a little blood on my knee after I fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x3)
- Press a clean cloth on the cut to stop the blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x4)
- Grown-ups can give blood to help people in hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x5)
- Reptiles are cold-blooded animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x6)
- The nurse took a small blood test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x7)
- Blood looks blue in veins through the skin, but it is always red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x8)
- And out of the tree streamed blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blood/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «some blood», not «a blood» or «bloods». The oo is said like the u in «mud». Myth: blood is never blue — it is dark red in veins and bright red in arteries. «Bleed» (bleed, bled) is the verb. In the UK «bloody» is also a rude word; avoid it.

### In the corpora

- [Many adults take a tablet every day to keep a long-term condition, like high blood pressure, under control.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/15/)
- [Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/16/)
- [In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood because it looked right on screen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/12/)
- [Elephant ears are full of blood vessels, and flapping them cools the blood; African elephants have much bigger ears than Asian elephants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/12/)
- [Sharks smell blood well, but the story that they can smell one drop from miles away is exaggerated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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