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# carefully

«carefully» in Mova's school dictionary: **with care, slowly and paying attention so you do not make…** — 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

adverb (carefully; adjective careful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Carefully means with care, slowly and paying attention so you do not make mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#m1)

2) Carefully means gently, so you do not break or hurt something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a word of the story only; in school, instructions say «read carefully», «check carefully»; in safety, «cross carefully», «handle carefully»

### examples

- Read the problem carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x1)
- She carefully counted 48 coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x2)
- He carefully packed 12 glasses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x3)
- Measure carefully to the nearest cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x4)
- Cross the road carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x5)
- Hold the baby bird carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x6)
- Listen carefully to the instructions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x7)
- He carefully poured the water into the cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x8)
- Check your answers carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x9)
- She carefully cut along the dotted line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x10)
- They walked carefully through the china country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carefully/#x11)

### note

Carries no clue about the operation. Spelled with double l: «carefully» (careful + ly). The opposite is «carelessly».

### In the corpora

- [Deliberate practice means working on purpose on the parts you cannot do yet, slowly and carefully.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/8/)
- [So zoos plan carefully which animals should become parents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/1/)
- [Elephants investigate new things carefully with their trunks and can smell water several kilometres away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/13/)
- [City pigeons often get string or hair tangled round their toes, which can cut into the foot; wildlife rescuers carefully remove it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/10/)
- [But scientists must test carefully, because it is easy to see what we hope to see in an animal's answers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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