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# planet

«planet» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very large round object in space that moves around a…** — 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 planet, planets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A very large round object in space that moves around a star, such as the Earth moving around the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#m1)

2) The planet: our Earth: «Look after the planet». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: our Solar System has eight planets in order from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune («My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming»); four small rocky inner planets and four giant outer ones; Jupiter is the biggest; Pluto is now called a dwarf planet; planets don't make their own light — they reflect the Sun's light. In the environment: «save the planet» by recycling and saving energy. Phrases: the planet Earth, the Red Planet (Mars), dwarf planet, planet-friendly, save the planet.

### examples

- Earth is the planet we live on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#x1)
- There are eight planets in our Solar System. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#x2)
- Jupiter is the biggest planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#x3)
- Mars is called the Red Planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#x4)
- Planets move around the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#x5)
- Pluto is now called a dwarf planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#x6)
- Recycling helps look after the planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#x7)
- You can see Venus shining in the evening sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planet/#x8)

### note

Countable: planets. A planet is not a star: stars make light, planets reflect it. The Moon is not a planet; it is Earth's satellite. In maths: «Earth takes 365 days to go round the Sun» — a year.

### In the corpora

- [Third: people are now the strongest force on the planet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food/6/)
- [The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, 15 degrees an hour, so noon slides westwards around the planet like a spotlight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/0/)
- [The heat inside the Earth comes partly from when the planet formed and partly from radioactive elements slowly breaking down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/14/)
- [In 2006 astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet after finding other similar objects, and some scientists still argue about it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/14-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars/11/)
- [Saturn is not the only planet with rings: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have faint rings too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/14-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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