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# litre

«litre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a unit for measuring liquids and the space inside things…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (litre, litres; US spelling liter, liters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A litre is a unit for measuring liquids and the space inside things (volume). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#m1)

2) A litre has 1000 millilitres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#m2)

3) A litre is also an amount of something that fills that much: a litre of milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths it is a unit of volume for liquids; 1 litre = 1000 millilitres; often a price or a rate per litre, for milk, juice or petrol. In science we measure litres with a measuring jug or cylinder. In everyday life: a big bottle of water often holds 1 litre; cars use litres of fuel in most countries (gallons in the USA).

### examples

- The tank holds 40 litres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x1)
- Milk costs 1 dollar a litre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x2)
- She drinks 2 litres of water a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x3)
- How many millilitres in 3 litres? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x4)
- A litre has 1000 millilitres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x5)
- This jug holds half a litre of juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x6)
- The bath held about 150 litres of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x7)
- Petrol costs more per litre this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x8)
- Measure the water in litres with a measuring jug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/litre/#x9)

### note

Short form: L or l (2 L). Spelling: «litre» in the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Ireland; «liter» in the USA. A litre of water weighs about 1 kilogram. A litre has 1000 millilitres. Maths: «per litre» is a rate. Trap: change ml to litres (÷ 1000) or litres to ml (× 1000) before adding.

### In the corpora

- [Aquarium tunnels are made of acrylic many centimetres thick, strong enough to hold back millions of litres of water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/5/)
- [A thirsty camel can drink over 100 litres of water in about ten minutes, and its body loses very little water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/6/)
- [A pelican's pouch scoops up about 10 litres of water, like a bucket, which it drains before swallowing the fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/3/)
- [A running tap can pour away several litres of water every minute.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/12/)
- [One kilogram is 1000 grams, and one litre is 1000 millilitres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/99-weight-capacity/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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