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# junction

«junction» in Mova's school dictionary: **A place where two or more roads, railway lines or paths…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a junction, junctions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A place where two or more roads, railway lines or paths meet or cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#m1)

2) A place where things join, like wires or rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In road-safety lessons, junctions are dangerous places: cars may turn across your path, so stop, look both ways and listen, and cross away from the corner at a crossing if you can. On a map, junctions are where roads meet; motorways have numbered junctions in the UK. In science, a junction in a circuit is where wires branch. Phrases: «at the junction», «T-junction», «road junction», «railway junction».

### examples

- Stop at the junction and look both ways. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x1)
- Turn left at the next junction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x2)
- A T-junction is where one road meets another like the letter T. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x3)
- Cars slow down at a busy junction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x4)
- Our train waited at the railway junction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x5)
- Cyclists must be careful at junctions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x6)
- Leave the motorway at junction 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x7)
- The two rivers meet at a junction near the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x8)

### note

Countable. Similar: «intersection» (American English for a road junction), «crossroads» (where two roads cross). British drivers drive on the left, Americans on the right, so look the right way first at a junction.

### In the corpora

- [Check trail markers at every junction so you stay on the right path.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/230-hiking-and-camping/13/)
- [Crossing against the signal is one of the main ways children are hit by cars at junctions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/19/)
- [Check the trail markers at every junction so you stay on the right path and can find your way back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking/21/)
- [Never ride up the inside of a truck or lorry at a junction: the driver cannot see you and it may turn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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