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# irrigation

«irrigation» in Mova's school dictionary: **Supplying water to land and crops through pipes, channels…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (irrigation, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Supplying water to land and crops through pipes, channels or sprinklers so plants can grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irrigation/#m1)

2) (medicine) Washing out a wound or part of the body with liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irrigation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science: irrigation lets farmers grow crops in dry places; ancient peoples dug canals for irrigation. In maths problems: litres of water for irrigation per field. Phrases: irrigation system, drip irrigation.

### examples

- Irrigation brings water from the river to the fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irrigation/#x1)
- Drip irrigation saves water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irrigation/#x2)
- Ancient Egyptians used the Nile for irrigation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irrigation/#x3)
- The farm has a big irrigation system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irrigation/#x4)
- Without irrigation, the crops would dry up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irrigation/#x5)
- The nurse used saline for wound irrigation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irrigation/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Verb: irrigate. Double r. In maths problems, irrigation is usually given in litres per hectare or per day — multiply by area or days.

### In the corpora

- [Farmers dug canals to carry river water to their fields, which is called irrigation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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