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# ember

«ember» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small piece of wood or coal that is still glowing hot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (ember, embers)

### meaning for a pupil

An ember is a small piece of wood or coal that is still glowing hot after a fire has died down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ember/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: embers can stay hot for hours and start new fires; pour water on a campfire and stir until cold. In science, embers glow because they are still burning slowly. In stories, glowing embers make a cosy or spooky scene. Phrases: «glowing embers», «the dying embers».

### examples

- The embers of the campfire glowed orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ember/#x1)
- Pour water on the embers before you leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ember/#x2)
- Wind can blow embers far and start a bushfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ember/#x3)
- We toasted marshmallows over the hot embers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ember/#x4)
- The last embers faded in the fireplace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ember/#x5)
- Never walk barefoot near embers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ember/#x6)
- From a neighbor's fire she brought hither a red, red ember. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ember/#x7)

### note

Countable; usually plural «embers». Safety: «put it out cold» — embers look dead but can still burn you. In Australia and the USA, wind-blown embers spread bushfires and wildfires. Not a number word.

### In the corpora

- [Hidden embers can stay hot for many hours and start a wildfire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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