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# nozzle

«nozzle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A narrow tube or spout at the end of a hose, pipe or can…** — 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 (a nozzle, nozzles)

### meaning for a pupil

A narrow tube or spout at the end of a hose, pipe or can that controls how a liquid or gas comes out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nozzle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: garden hose nozzle, petrol pump nozzle, ketchup bottle nozzle, icing bag nozzle. In science: a narrow nozzle makes water come out faster and further. Safety: never point a hose or spray nozzle at someone's face, and do not look into a spray nozzle.

### examples

- Turn the nozzle to make a fine spray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nozzle/#x1)
- Dad put the petrol nozzle into the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nozzle/#x2)
- The ketchup nozzle got blocked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nozzle/#x3)
- Use a star nozzle to pipe the icing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nozzle/#x4)
- Firefighters held the big nozzle of the hose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nozzle/#x5)
- Point the nozzle away from your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nozzle/#x6)
- Squeeze the trigger on the nozzle to water the plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nozzle/#x7)

### note

Double «z»: nozzle. Countable: a nozzle, nozzles. When the opening is smaller, the same amount of water has to move faster, so it shoots further.

### In the corpora

- [Let an adult help with a hot glue gun, and never touch the nozzle or the hot glue, because it burns skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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