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# guitar

«guitar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a musical instrument with strings that you play with your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (guitar, guitars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A guitar is a musical instrument with strings that you play with your fingers or a small pick. A guitar usually has 6 strings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#m1)

2) An electric guitar needs an amplifier to sound loud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted or bought; a guitar's strings (usually 6); prices; in music lessons pupils learn chords on the guitar; in science: a shorter or tighter string makes a higher sound; phrases: «play the guitar», «guitar lessons», «strum the guitar»

### examples

- A guitar costs $120. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#x1)
- Each guitar has 6 strings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#x2)
- The shop sold 4 guitars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#x3)
- How many strings do 5 guitars have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#x4)
- My brother plays the guitar in a band. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#x5)
- She strummed her guitar around the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#x6)
- A tighter string gives a higher note. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#x7)
- He has guitar lessons every Thursday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guitar/#x8)

### note

A thing counted; hidden fact: a guitar has 6 strings (5 guitars → 30 strings). We «play the guitar» (with «the»). A bass guitar usually has 4 strings.

### In the corpora

- [Every sound starts with something wobbling very fast: a guitar string, a drum skin, or the vocal cords in your throat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/0/)
- [A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long, loose string vibrates slowly and sounds low.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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