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# gravel

«gravel» in Mova's school dictionary: **Lots of small stones and bits of rock, used for paths…** — 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 (gravel — uncountable); verb (gravel, gravels, gravelled/graveled, gravelling/graveling — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lots of small stones and bits of rock, used for paths, driveways and roads, or found in rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#m1)

2) (gravelly, of a voice) Low and rough-sounding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science: gravel is made when rocks are broken by water and weather; it lets water drain through, so it is used under paths and in fish tanks. In safety: bikes can skid on loose gravel. Phrases: «a gravel path», «gravel road», «crunch on the gravel».

### examples

- The car crunched over the gravel driveway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#x1)
- We put gravel at the bottom of the fish tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#x2)
- I fell off my bike on the loose gravel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#x3)
- The river bed was covered with gravel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#x4)
- Gravel lets rainwater drain away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#x5)
- The old farm road is just gravel, not tarmac. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#x6)
- So he trotted off to the gravel path near the house, and sat down to think. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravel/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «some gravel», «a bag of gravel», not «a gravel». A single piece is a stone or pebble. Adjective: gravelly (a gravelly voice). Gravel is bigger than sand and smaller than pebbles.

### In the corpora

- [A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miners used pans and sieves to wash gold from river gravel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/6/)
- ["Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel" (Proverbs 20:17).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/6/)
- [Rough surfaces make more friction than smooth ones: a sledge slides far on smooth ice but stops quickly on grass or gravel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/51-forces/6/)
- [Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.575/)
- [He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.69/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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