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# equator

«equator» in Mova's school dictionary: **an imaginary line around the middle of the Earth, halfway…** — 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 (the equator; the Equator)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the Earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#m1)

2) It divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography the equator is the line of latitude 0 degrees on maps and globes. Places near the equator are hot all year, with no real winter, and days and nights are about the same length. The seasons in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are opposite: when it is summer in the UK, Canada and the USA, it is winter in Australia and New Zealand. Phrases: on the equator, north of the equator, south of the equator, cross the equator.

### examples

- The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x1)
- Countries near the equator are hot all year round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x2)
- Australia is south of the equator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x3)
- The UK, Ireland and Canada are north of the equator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x4)
- Rainforests grow near the equator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x5)
- The equator is about 40,000 kilometres long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x6)
- You can't see the equator on the ground; it's only drawn on maps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x7)
- When the ship crossed the equator, the sailors had a party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x8)
- When you’re south of the Sticky Water [he meant the Equator] and your tail tingles, that means there’s a gale in front of you and you must head north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equator/#x9)

### note

Usually «the equator» with «the». It is imaginary: there is no real line on the ground (though some places have painted lines for visitors). Myth: water does not reliably swirl the opposite way down drains on each side of the equator; sinks are too small for that.

### In the corpora

- [The Galapagos penguin lives on the equator, kept cool by cold ocean currents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/6/)
- [The Earth is about 40,000 km around the equator, and the Greek scholar Eratosthenes estimated this size quite well around 240 BC.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/14/)
- [Near the equator lies a zone of weak, changing winds called the doldrums, where sailing ships could be stuck for days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/18/)
- [The Earth is not a perfect ball: it is about 43 kilometres wider across the equator than from pole to pole.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/9/)
- [At the equator the ground moves at about 1,600 kilometres an hour, but we feel nothing because the motion is smooth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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