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# carafe

«carafe» in Mova's school dictionary: **A glass jug with a narrow neck and no lid, used for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (carafe, carafes)

### meaning for a pupil

A glass jug with a narrow neck and no lid, used for serving water or wine at the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carafe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and restaurants, water is served in a carafe. In maths problems, a carafe may hold, say, 1 litre, and pupils work out how many glasses it fills.

### examples

- The waiter brought a carafe of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carafe/#x1)
- The carafe holds one litre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carafe/#x2)
- Pour the juice from the carafe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carafe/#x3)
- Mum put a carafe of water on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carafe/#x4)
- How many 250 ml glasses can a 1 litre carafe fill? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carafe/#x5)
- The glass carafe broke on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carafe/#x6)

### note

Say «ka-RAFF». Countable. In maths problems, use its capacity: a 1 litre carafe fills four 250 ml glasses.

### Trees and pragmatics

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