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# particle

«particle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very small piece or bit of something: dust particles** — 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 (a particle, particles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A particle is a very small piece or bit of something: dust particles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#m1)

2) In science, particles are the tiny bits that all matter is made of, such as atoms and molecules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#m2)

3) In grammar, a particle is a small word like «up» in «give up» or «to» in «to go». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#m3)

4) A particle can also mean any single thing or item, however small, as in every created particle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science the particle model explains solids, liquids and gases: in a solid the particles are packed tightly and vibrate in place; in a liquid they are close but slide past each other; in a gas they are far apart and move fast. When you heat something, its particles move faster. Air pollution and smoke contain particles that are harmful to breathe. Phrases: tiny particles, dust particles, particle of truth.

### examples

- Everything is made of tiny particles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x1)
- In a solid, the particles are packed close together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x2)
- Particles in a gas move fast and spread out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x3)
- When ice melts, its particles start to slide around. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x4)
- Sunlight shows dust particles floating in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x5)
- Smoke has tiny particles that are bad for your lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x6)
- There wasn't a particle of truth in his story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x7)
- Heating water makes its particles move faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x8)
- One must find out the truth concerning every created particle, and keep to that." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/particle/#x9)

### note

Countable: particles. Particles are far too small to see, even with an ordinary microscope; a dust particle you can see is made of billions of them. Myth: particles in a solid are not completely still; they vibrate.

### In the corpora

- [Everything around us is made of tiny particles called atoms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/5/)
- [Particles in air and water are always moving and bumping, so smells and colours spread out on their own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/9/)
- [Particles move faster when they are warmer, so things spread faster in heat and slower in cold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/10/)
- [Most things around us are solids, liquids or gases, and the difference is how their particles behave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/0/)
- [In a solid like a wooden block the particles are locked in place and only wobble, so it keeps its shape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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