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# collarbone

«collarbone» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of two long thin bones at the front of your body…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a collarbone, collarbones)

### meaning for a pupil

The collarbone is one of two long thin bones at the front of your body, running from the top of your chest to each shoulder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the skeleton, the collarbone (clavicle) joins the arm to the body. In sport and safety, a fall from a bike or horse onto the shoulder can break a collarbone, a common children's injury. Phrases: break your collarbone, a broken collarbone.

### examples

- You can feel your collarbone just below your neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x1)
- He broke his collarbone when he fell off his bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x2)
- The doctor put her arm in a sling for her collarbone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x3)
- Each person has two collarbones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x4)
- The scientific name for the collarbone is the clavicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x5)
- The necklace rested on her collarbone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x6)

### note

Countable: a collarbone, collarbones. Usually one word, sometimes «collar bone». It is called this because it lies where a shirt collar sits.

### In the corpora

- [The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/11/)
- [Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/4/)
- [A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/12/)
- [The collarbone often breaks from a fall on the shoulder, and most broken collarbones are treated with a sling, not a cast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/48-broken-bones-in-sport-fingers-wrists-and-collarbones/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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