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# degree

«degree» in Mova's school dictionary: **a unit for measuring how hot or cold something is** — 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 (degree, degrees)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A degree is a unit for measuring how hot or cold something is. Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#m1)

2) A degree is a unit for measuring the size of an angle. A right angle is 90 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#m2)

3) A degree is what you get when you finish college or university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#m3)

4) «To some degree» means a bit, partly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#m4)

5) “By degrees” means gradually, little by little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a unit of temperature (rises and falls) or of angles (right angle 90, straight line 180, full turn 360; a triangle's angles add up to 180); science: thermometers, Celsius and Fahrenheit, a fever; everyday life: weather reports; written ° as in 20°

### examples

- It was 15 degrees in the morning and 22 degrees at noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x1)
- The temperature fell 6 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x2)
- A right angle is 90 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x3)
- The angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x4)
- Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x5)
- Turn 360 degrees to make a full turn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x6)
- It is 75 degrees Fahrenheit today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x7)
- My sister got a degree in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x8)
- The natives came by degrees to be less fearful of danger from me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degree/#x9)

### note

A unit: rises add, falls subtract; angle sums are fixed (triangle 180, straight line 180, full turn 360). Trap: temperatures below zero go negative. Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees are different: 0 °C = 32 °F.

### In the corpora

- [The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/12/)
- [The bombardier beetle mixes two chemicals in its body to make a spray of about 100 degrees that it shoots from its tail end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/11/)
- [Mediterranean tortoises hibernate, and owners guided by a vet keep them steady at about 5 degrees so they neither wake early nor freeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/16/)
- [Vent water can be hotter than three hundred degrees, but it does not boil because of the huge pressure of the deep sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight/5/)
- [Even a fertilised egg must be kept at about 37 to 38 degrees for 21 days to hatch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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