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# imperial

«imperial» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with an empire or an emperor, as in «the imperial…** — 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

adjective (imperial)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Imperial means to do with an empire or an emperor, as in «the imperial palace». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#m1)

2) Imperial units are the old British system of measures, such as inches, feet, miles, pints, pounds and stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#m2)

3) (formal) Imperial can mean grand and commanding, like a powerful ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons, pupils convert between imperial and metric units: 1 inch is about 2.5 cm, 1 mile is about 1.6 km, 1 pint is about 568 ml in the UK. In everyday UK life, road signs show miles and people give height in feet and weight in stones; the US also uses its own customary units much like imperial. In history, imperial means linked to empires like the Roman or British Empire. Phrases: «imperial units», «imperial system», «Imperial Rome», «imperial palace».

### examples

- The British still use imperial miles on road signs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#x1)
- Convert 6 feet from imperial to metric. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#x2)
- The emperor lived in the imperial palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#x3)
- Imperial Rome ruled a huge area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#x4)
- A pint is an imperial unit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#x5)
- My grandad measures everything in inches, the imperial way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#x6)
- The imperial army marched across the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#x7)
- The Imperial messenger insisted, saying it was the Emperor’s order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imperial/#x8)

### note

Adjective. Opposite in measures: metric. Maths note: 12 inches = 1 foot; 3 feet = 1 yard; 1760 yards = 1 mile; 16 ounces = 1 pound; 14 pounds = 1 stone; 8 pints = 1 gallon. A US pint (about 473 ml) is smaller than a UK imperial pint (about 568 ml). Do not confuse with «impartial» (fair, not taking sides).

### In the corpora

- [Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/13/)
- [The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, ruled from 1644 to 1912.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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