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# crater

«crater» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large bowl-shaped hole in the ground made when…** — 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 (crater, craters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crater is a large bowl-shaped hole in the ground made when something hits it, like a meteorite or a bomb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#m1)

2) A crater is the hollow at the top of a volcano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#m2)

3) A crater can also be any small hollow or dip, like a dent in a soft surface. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, the Moon has many craters made by rocks from space; children model them by dropping marbles into flour. In geography, volcanoes have craters. In stories, a crater shows something huge crashed or exploded. Phrases: «impact crater», «volcanic crater», «craters on the Moon».

### examples

- The Moon's surface is covered in craters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#x1)
- We dropped stones into a tray of flour to make craters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#x2)
- Smoke rose from the crater of the volcano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#x3)
- A meteorite made a huge crater in the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#x4)
- Bigger stones made deeper craters in our experiment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#x5)
- The bomb left a crater in the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#x6)
- Some craters fill with water and become lakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#x7)
- Does the crater of the volcano know that the glowing lava is pouring from it? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crater/#x8)

### note

Countable: «a crater», «craters». In a science experiment, crater size can be measured (width, depth) and compared with the height or mass of the dropped object. Not to be confused with «creator» (someone who makes things).

### In the corpora

- [When a huge eruption empties the magma chamber, the ground above can collapse into a giant crater called a caldera.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/16/)
- [Mercury is the smallest planet and the closest to the Sun, a grey, cratered ball only a little bigger than our Moon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/0/)
- [Mercury's surface is covered in craters like the Moon's, and the Caloris Basin is about 1,500 kilometres across.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/12/)
- [There is water ice hidden in permanently shadowed craters near Mercury's poles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/13/)
- [Mercury has no air, rain or moving plates of crust to wear its craters away, so they last for billions of years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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