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# mortar

«mortar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mixture of sand, cement or lime and water used to stick…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (mortar, a mortar, mortars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mortar is a mixture of sand, cement or lime and water used to stick bricks or stones together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#m1)

2) A mortar is a strong bowl in which you crush things with a pestle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#m2)

3) A mortar is also a short gun that fires shells high into the air, used in war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#m3)

4) A mortarboard is a flat square hat worn at graduations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology and building; in cooking and science (mortar and pestle); in news about war. Phrases: bricks and mortar, mortar and pestle.

### examples

- The builder spread mortar between the bricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#x1)
- Grind the spices with a mortar and pestle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#x2)
- Mortar holds the old wall together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#x3)
- The news reported mortar fire in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#x4)
- The mortar dried hard overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#x5)
- Graduates threw their mortarboards in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#x6)
- Out of the trunk he made a mortar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortar/#x7)

### note

Building mortar is uncountable («some mortar»); a bowl or gun is countable («a mortar, two mortars»). «Bricks and mortar» means real buildings, as opposed to online.

### In the corpora

- [Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.799/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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