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# pizza

«pizza» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat round bread baked with tomato, cheese and other…** — 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 (pizza, pizzas)

### meaning for a pupil

A pizza is a flat round bread baked with tomato, cheese and other toppings on top. It comes from Italy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted and bought, and a whole cut into equal slices; often used for fractions and sharing; in everyday life: pizza night, ordering pizza, toppings like ham, mushrooms or pineapple; in maths: a pizza drawn as a circle split into equal parts shows fractions

### examples

- A pizza is cut into 8 slices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x1)
- Tom ate 3 slices of the pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x2)
- They ordered 4 pizzas for 12 children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x3)
- Each pizza costs 9 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x4)
- We had pizza for dinner on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x5)
- What toppings do you like on your pizza? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x6)
- If you eat 2 of 8 slices, you eat a quarter of the pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x7)
- Pizza comes from Italy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x8)

### note

Often a whole split into equal parts: the number of slices tells the denominator. Trap: count whole pizzas and slices separately; 2 pizzas of 8 slices make 16 slices. Trap: half of a big pizza is more than half of a small one. Pronounced «PEET-sa».

### In the corpora

- [After pizza your fingers are greasy, and rinsing under the tap does almost nothing: water and grease do not mix.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/0/)
- [«I love pizza!» has one, but it is a statement said with feeling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/26-sentences-capital-letters-full-stops-and-the-four-types/15/)
- [Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks are finger foods, and most other foods are eaten with cutlery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/5/)
- [Leo sulked and refused pizza, and by the time he wanted some there was one slice left, with no cheese.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/14/)
- [A headline shouted «MAYOR'S SHOCKING SECRET!» Zara read the article: he likes pineapple on pizza.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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