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# perspective

«perspective» in Mova's school dictionary: **a way of thinking about or seeing something, a point of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a perspective, perspectives; perspective — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A perspective is a way of thinking about or seeing something, a point of view («from my perspective»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#m1)

2) In art, perspective is a way of drawing so that things look solid and far away, with far things smaller and lines meeting at a vanishing point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#m2)

3) To keep things in perspective is to understand how important or unimportant something really is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#m3)

4) An old word for a telescope: a tube with glass in it that makes faraway things look closer and bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In English and history lessons, pupils look at events from different perspectives, such as a soldier's and a child's. In art lessons, children draw roads and railways with one-point perspective. In everyday life, «put it into perspective» means: it's not as bad as it seems. In stories, «first-person perspective» means told by «I».

### examples

- From my perspective, the rule is unfair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#x1)
- Write the story from the dog's perspective. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#x2)
- In art, we drew a road using perspective. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#x3)
- The lines meet at the vanishing point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#x4)
- Losing a game is sad, but keep it in perspective. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#x5)
- Travelling gave her a new perspective on life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#x6)
- Each witness had a different perspective on the accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#x7)
- He therefore took the crier with him to the khan where he lodged, and counted him out the money, and received the perspective glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspective/#x8)

### note

Countable for points of view (different perspectives), uncountable for the drawing method. Trap: «perspective» (point of view) vs «prospective» (likely, future: «prospective students»).

### In the corpora

- [Italian artists worked out the rules of perspective about 600 years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/12/)
- [3D pavement art uses perspective tricks so a chalk drawing looks deep from one spot; chalk washes away in the rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/15/)
- [Forced perspective is a camera trick: something close to the camera looks huge and something far away looks tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/21-filters-edits-and-fake-photos/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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