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# grommet

«grommet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a metal or plastic ring put in a hole in cloth, leather…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a grommet, grommets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A grommet is a metal or plastic ring put in a hole in cloth, leather or paper to make the hole strong, like the holes for laces or for a tent rope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#m1)

2) (medicine, UK, Australia) A grommet is a tiny tube a doctor puts in a child's eardrum to let fluid drain out and help hearing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#m2)

3) (Australia, NZ, slang) A grommet (or grom) is a young surfer or skateboarder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you see grommets on shoes, curtains, banners and tents. Many children have grommets in their ears for «glue ear»; it is a small, common operation. In Australian and New Zealand beach life, groms are kids learning to surf. In design and technology lessons, grommets protect cables going through holes.

### examples

- The tent rope goes through the metal grommet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#x1)
- The banner has a grommet in each corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#x2)
- I had grommets put in my ears when I was five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#x3)
- After the grommets, Lily could hear much better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#x4)
- (Australia) The grommets were out surfing at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#x5)
- (Australia) That little grom can already ride big waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#x6)
- Put a rubber grommet where the wire passes through the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grommet/#x7)

### note

Countable. The surfing sense is slang from Australia and New Zealand; «grom» is the short form. The ear tube is also called a «tympanostomy tube» by doctors (US: «ear tubes»).

### Trees and pragmatics

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