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# lanyard

«lanyard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cord or strap worn round the neck to hold an ID card…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a lanyard, lanyards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lanyard is a cord or strap worn round the neck to hold an ID card, keys or a whistle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lanyard/#m1)

2) (sailing) A lanyard is a short rope on a ship used for tying or holding things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lanyard/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

School and work: staff and visitors wear lanyards with ID badges; PE teachers have whistles on lanyards. Sailing stories. It tells the reader who someone is or what they carry.

### examples

- The teacher wore her ID badge on a lanyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lanyard/#x1)
- Visitors must wear a red lanyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lanyard/#x2)
- The coach's whistle hung on a lanyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lanyard/#x3)
- Sailors tied the bucket with a lanyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lanyard/#x4)
- I keep my house key on a lanyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lanyard/#x5)
- Our school trip lanyards had our names on them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lanyard/#x6)

### note

Plural: lanyards. Spelling: l-a-n-y-a-r-d.

### Trees and pragmatics

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