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# moment

«moment» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very short time** — 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 (moment, moments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A moment is a very short time. «Wait a moment» means wait a little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#m1)

2) A moment is also one exact point in time: «at that moment». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#m2)

3) An important time can be called a moment: a big moment, a proud moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a word of the story for a short time; «at the moment» means now; «at that moment» marks a point in the story; rarely a number; phrases «just a moment», «in a moment» (soon), «for the moment», «the moment that» (as soon as)

### examples

- At that moment, Ben had 6 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x1)
- Wait a moment while I count. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x2)
- At the moment, there are 20 birds on the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x3)
- I'll be there in a moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x4)
- Winning the race was her proudest moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x5)
- The moment the bell rang, everyone ran outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x6)
- Just a moment, I'm on the phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x7)
- For a moment, nobody spoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x8)
- At that moment my dishes disappeared!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moment/#x9)

### note

Carries no number. «At that moment» marks which state of the story you look at. No operation clue. «At the moment» = now; «in a moment» = soon. Trap: do not confuse moment with «minute» as a unit; a moment has no fixed length.

### In the corpora

- [Good secrets are about timing, like a surprise party that ends in a happy moment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/6/)
- [A reputation can grow from one small moment repeated as «always»; one bad week is not a whole reputation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/13/)
- [It shows the worst moments, because what is new and unusual today is what makes the news.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/1/)
- [Documentary shows about real hospitals film real patients who agreed; they show the exciting moments chosen from hundreds of hours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/22/)
- [A stunt double is a trained stunt performer who stands in for an actor in the dangerous moments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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