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# millilitre

«millilitre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very small unit for measuring liquid** — 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 (millilitre, millilitres)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A millilitre is a very small unit for measuring liquid. A litre has 1000 millilitres; a teaspoon holds about 5 millilitres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#m1)

2) It is written ml or mL. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a unit of volume for drinks, medicine, water and juice; problems change millilitres into litres or share liquid into cups; in science you measure liquids in millilitres with a measuring cylinder; in everyday life medicine doses and can sizes are in ml

### examples

- A bottle holds 500 millilitres of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x1)
- She pours 250 millilitres into each glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x2)
- How many millilitres are in 2 litres? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x3)
- The jug has 1200 millilitres of juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x4)
- Take 5 ml of medicine, as the doctor said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x5)
- A can of soda holds 330 ml. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x6)
- Fill the measuring cylinder to 50 millilitres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x7)
- A raindrop is much less than one millilitre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x8)

### note

A unit, not a thing counted. 1000 millilitres = 1 litre. British spelling of milliliter (US). Trap: change litres to millilitres before you add or compare. Safety: medicine is measured with the spoon or syringe that comes with it, not a kitchen spoon.

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- [2 litres of juice is 2000 millilitres; cups of 250 millilitres hold it all in 2000 ÷ 250 = 8 cups.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/99-weight-capacity/2/)
- [A litre is 1000 millilitres, and a kilogram is 1000 grams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/249-weight-and-volume-in-the-kitchen/0/)
- [A litre is 1000 millilitres (ml).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/257-cups-of-juice/0/)
- [To find how many cups a bottle fills, turn the litres into millilitres, then see how many cups fit in them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/257-cups-of-juice/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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