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# dune

«dune» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind, in a desert…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (dune, dunes)

### meaning for a pupil

A dune is a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind, in a desert or near the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons, wind moves sand and builds dunes; dunes slowly move and change shape. On beach trips, dunes protect the land from the sea, so we stay on paths. Phrases: «sand dune», «sand dunes», «behind the dunes».

### examples

- We climbed the sand dunes behind the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#x1)
- The wind shapes the dunes in the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#x2)
- Please keep to the path to protect the dunes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#x3)
- Camels walked slowly over the dunes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#x4)
- Some dunes are taller than a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#x5)
- We rolled down the soft dune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#x6)
- Grass grows on the dunes and holds the sand in place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#x7)
- He went out and walked towards the dunes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dune/#x8)

### note

Countable: «a dune», «dunes». Rhymes with «tune». Safety: digging deep tunnels in dunes or sand is dangerous — the sand can collapse. Not a number word.

### In the corpora

- [She keeps her hole shallow and does not dig a tunnel under the dune.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/11/)
- [Most deserts are rocky or stony rather than covered in sand dunes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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