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# earth

«earth» in Mova's school dictionary: **The planet we live on, the third planet from the Sun…** — 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 (Earth — the planet; earth — soil, the ground)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The planet we live on, the third planet from the Sun (often written Earth). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#m1)

2) Soil, the brown stuff that plants grow in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#m2)

3) The ground or land, not the sea or sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#m3)

4) In British English, a wire that makes electricity safe (a ground wire in American English). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, Earth spins once a day (day and night) and goes around the Sun once a year (seasons with its tilt); it has land, oceans and air. In nature study, earth is soil. Phrases: on Earth, planet Earth, down to earth (sensible), what on earth, the ends of the earth, Earth Day.

### examples

- We live on planet Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#x1)
- The Earth goes around the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#x2)
- Plant the seeds in the earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#x3)
- Most of the Earth is covered by water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#x4)
- Worms live in the earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#x5)
- What on earth are you doing? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#x6)
- The astronauts came back to Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#x7)
- She is a down-to-earth person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earth/#x8)

### note

Capital "Earth" for the planet; small "earth" for soil. Myth: the Earth is not flat; it is a ball (sphere). "Earth" (soil) is uncountable.

### In the corpora

- [Whale poo spreads nutrients that feed plankton, and plankton makes much of Earth's oxygen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/17/)
- [The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the largest coral reef system on Earth, made of thousands of separate reefs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/11/)
- [Most life on Earth is too small to see with our eyes, and scientists still discover thousands of new microscopic kinds every year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures/4/)
- [Scientists track big asteroids, and none of the known large ones will hit Earth in the next hundred years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/13/)
- [In 2022 the DART spacecraft bumped into an asteroid and changed its path, a test of how to protect Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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