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# lighthouse

«lighthouse» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tall tower by the sea with a bright light at the top…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lighthouse, lighthouses)

### meaning for a pupil

A lighthouse is a tall tower by the sea with a bright light at the top that flashes to guide ships at night and warn them of rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a place in a story; its height, steps or the time between flashes are counted; flashes «every 10 seconds» make a pattern in time. In history and science: each lighthouse has its own pattern of flashes so sailors know which one it is; a lighthouse keeper looked after the light. In stories: a lonely lighthouse on a rocky island. Phrases: lighthouse keeper, lighthouse beam, the lighthouse flashes.

### examples

- The lighthouse has 120 steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x1)
- Its light flashes every 10 seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x2)
- The lighthouse is 30 m tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x3)
- How many flashes in one minute? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x4)
- The lighthouse warned the ships away from the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x5)
- We climbed to the top of the lighthouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x6)
- The lighthouse keeper lived in a little house nearby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x7)
- At night we saw the lighthouse beam sweep across the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x8)
- Strong hands grasped the oars, and by and by all were safe in the lighthouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighthouse/#x9)

### note

One word: light + house. Countable. A story place; steps, height or flashes may be counted. Trap: flashes «every 10 seconds» in a minute starting at 0 gives 7, not 6.

### In the corpora

- [They argued about the lighthouse for twenty minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/3/)
- [It is like a moth flying across a distant lighthouse: you cannot see the moth, but the light flickers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/2/)
- [Each lighthouse flashes its own pattern, so sailors know which one they are seeing; British lighthouses now run automatically, without keepers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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