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# cola

«cola» in Mova's school dictionary: **A sweet, fizzy, brown soft drink, flavoured partly with…** — 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 (cola, colas; a cola — a can or glass of it)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sweet, fizzy, brown soft drink, flavoured partly with the kola nut and usually containing caffeine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#m1)

2) The cola tree, a tropical tree whose nuts were first used for the flavour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#m2)

3) Cola can also be a first name for a boy or a man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons, cola is a sugary drink: one can can have about 35 grams of sugar (around 9 teaspoons), plus acid and caffeine, which can harm teeth and make it hard to sleep, so it is a treat, not an everyday drink; diet cola has sweeteners instead of sugar but is still acidic. In science, the famous cola and mint experiment makes a fizzy fountain as gas bubbles escape fast (do it outside, with an adult). Cola is carbonated, meaning carbon dioxide is dissolved in it. Phrases: "a can of cola", "diet cola", "cola bottle", "cola sweets".

### examples

- Cola has lots of sugar and caffeine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x1)
- We dropped mints into the cola and it fizzed out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x2)
- Water is a better drink than cola. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x3)
- Two colas and a lemonade, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x4)
- The bubbles in cola are carbon dioxide gas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x5)
- A can of cola can have 9 teaspoons of sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x6)
- Leave a tooth in cola, and the acid slowly softens it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x7)
- Grandpa likes a glass of cola with ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x8)
- When the King heard this, he told Cola-Mattheo to bring the snake to the palace, and said that he was prepared to receive the creature as his son-in-law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cola/#x9)

### note

"Cola" is a general word; brand names like Coca-Cola and Pepsi start with capitals. Mass or a drink: "some cola" (uncountable) or "a cola" (one serving). Myth: cola does not dissolve a tooth overnight, but its acid and sugar do harm teeth over time. In maths, 3 cans × 35 g of sugar = 105 g.

### In the corpora

- [Your stomach is the same, so after a can of cola the gas comes back up as a burp.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo/2/)
- [Fizzy drinks are slightly acidic, because carbon dioxide in water makes a weak acid, and some colas also have phosphoric acid added.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/12/)
- [Drop Mentos into a bottle of diet cola (outside, with an adult, standing well back) and a fountain shoots up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola/4/)
- [And a can of ordinary cola hides about seven teaspoons of sugar: the acid and fizz cover up the sweetness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola/7/)
- [One can of ordinary cola has about seven teaspoons of sugar; diet drinks use sweeteners with almost no sugar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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