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# mosaic

«mosaic» in Mova's school dictionary: **A picture or pattern made by putting together many small…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a mosaic, mosaics)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A picture or pattern made by putting together many small pieces of coloured stone, glass or tile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#m1)

2) Something made of many different parts mixed together (a mosaic of cultures). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history: Romans made mosaic floors. In art lessons: pupils make paper mosaics. In maths: mosaics and tiling connect with shapes and tessellation. Phrases: mosaic floor, Roman mosaic, a mosaic of.

### examples

- We saw a Roman mosaic of a dolphin on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#x1)
- In art we made a mosaic from tiny squares of paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#x2)
- The church window is a glass mosaic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#x3)
- The city is a mosaic of different cultures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#x4)
- The mosaic used over 1,000 tiny tiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#x5)
- Square tiles fit together well in a mosaic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#x6)
- Then he went on through richly-furnished chambers, over mosaic floors, amid gorgeous pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosaic/#x7)

### note

Countable. Said "moh-ZAY-ik". In maths, a mosaic of shapes that fit with no gaps is a tessellation; to find how many tiles, divide the area to cover by the area of one tile.

### Trees and pragmatics

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