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# lasagne

«lasagne» in Mova's school dictionary: **an Italian dish made of flat sheets of pasta in layers…** — 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

noun (lasagne — uncountable; a lasagne, lasagnes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lasagne is an Italian dish made of flat sheets of pasta in layers with meat or vegetable sauce and cheese, baked in an oven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#m1)

2) Lasagne is also the name of the wide flat pasta sheets themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life lasagne is a family dinner, a school-dinner favourite and a dish people bring to friends who are ill or have a new baby. In maths it is used for sharing problems (cut a lasagne into equal pieces) and in science for layers. Phrases: "a slice of lasagne", "vegetable lasagne", "layers of lasagne".

### examples

- We had lasagne for tea on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x1)
- Mum made a vegetable lasagne with spinach and cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x2)
- Grandad cut the lasagne into eight equal pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x3)
- Rock layers are stacked like a lasagne, with the oldest at the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x4)
- The lasagne was so hot that the cheese burnt my tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x5)
- Our neighbours brought round a lasagne when the baby was born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x6)
- You need nine lasagne sheets for three layers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x7)

### note

British and Irish English usually spell it "lasagne"; American English often spells it "lasagna". Both are correct. Usually uncountable (some lasagne, a piece of lasagne), but you can say "a lasagne" for one whole dish. In a sharing problem, if a lasagne is cut into 12 equal pieces and you eat 3, you have eaten 3/12 = 1/4 of it.

### In the corpora

- [Pets need proper food made for their kind; rich human food, like a cat eating lasagne, can make them ill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility/7/)
- [Scooby-Doo shakes with fear, Garfield wolfs a tray of lasagne, Sonic zooms round loops faster than sound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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