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# pedal

«pedal» in Mova's school dictionary: **A part you push with your foot to make a bike move** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pedal, pedals); verb (pedal, pedals, pedalled/pedaled, pedalling/pedaling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A part you push with your foot to make a bike move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#m1)

2) A part you press with your foot to control a machine, car or piano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#m2)

3) (verb) To push the pedals of a bike to make it go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, cycling: pedal steadily, keep your feet on the pedals, wear a helmet. In science, pedals and gears are simple machines that turn your push into movement. In cars, the brake and accelerator are pedals. Phrases: «pedal hard», «back-pedal», «pedal bin», «brake pedal».

### examples

- Push down on the pedals to make the bike go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#x1)
- I pedalled up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#x2)
- The car has a brake pedal and a gas pedal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#x3)
- Press the piano pedal to make the note last longer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#x4)
- She pedalled as fast as she could. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#x5)
- Put the rubbish in the pedal bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#x6)
- My foot slipped off the pedal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pedal/#x7)

### note

UK spelling: pedalled, pedalling; US: pedaled, pedaling. Homophone: «peddle» (to sell things, often in a bad way). Back-pedal means change what you said.

### In the corpora

- [Pedals are not wheels: every one of them has 2 pedals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/219-wheels-on-cycles/2/)
- [Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so you never learn this steering, which is why balance bikes with no pedals teach children faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/3/)
- [Gears change how hard each turn of the pedals is.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/4/)
- [Change gears while pedalling gently.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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