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# menu

«menu» in Mova's school dictionary: **a list of the food and drinks you can choose in a café or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a menu, menus)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A menu is a list of the food and drinks you can choose in a café or restaurant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#m1)

2) A menu is the food planned for a meal or a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#m2)

3) On a computer or phone, a menu is a list of choices on the screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, pupils read menus to choose and pay; in maths problems, menus with prices are used for adding costs and giving change. In computing, you open a menu and click an option. Phrases: "on the menu", "kids' menu", "set menu", "drop-down menu", "main menu".

### examples

- Can we see the menu, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x1)
- Fish and chips is on the menu today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x2)
- The kids' menu has pizza and pasta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x3)
- The school lunch menu changes every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x4)
- Click the menu and choose "Save". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x5)
- Using the menu, work out the cost of two burgers and a drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x6)
- Go back to the main menu to start the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x7)

### note

Countable: menus (not menues). Comes from French. In maths problems, read prices carefully: £, $, pence and cents.

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in Auckland, Freya and her dad sit on the sofa with the TV menu open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/4/)
- [And practice fits anywhere: spell the signs, the menu and the car number plates on the way to school.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/14/)
- [Spelling can be practised anywhere: signs, menus, number plates.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/25/)
- [Menu, restaurant and café are French words used in English.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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