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# karate

«karate» in Mova's school dictionary: **A Japanese martial art and sport in which people fight…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (karate; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A Japanese martial art and sport in which people fight using hands, feet, elbows and knees, with strikes, kicks and blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#m1)

2) The skills and training of this sport, with coloured belts showing levels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Many children do karate after school; it teaches discipline, fitness, respect and self-defence. Belts go from white up to black. In stories, a karate expert can be a hero or a comic show-off. Safety: karate is practised with rules, a teacher and control; you should never use moves to hurt people for fun. Phrases: «do karate», «a karate class», «karate chop», «karate kid», «black belt in karate».

### examples

- I do karate on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#x1)
- She got her yellow belt in karate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#x2)
- Our karate teacher says respect comes first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#x3)
- He pretended to do a karate chop on the cardboard box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#x4)
- Karate came from Okinawa in Japan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#x5)
- You bow when you enter the karate hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#x6)
- Karate is for self-defence, not for starting fights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/karate/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «do karate», not «play karate» and not «a karate». Pronounced ka-RAH-tee in English. The person is a «karateka» (rare) or just «someone who does karate». Not the same as judo (throws and holds) or taekwondo (a Korean martial art with many kicks).

### Trees and pragmatics

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