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# plunger

«plunger» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tool with a rubber cup on a stick, used to clear a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a plunger, plungers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A plunger is a tool with a rubber cup on a stick, used to clear a blocked sink or toilet by pushing and pulling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plunger/#m1)

2) A plunger is a part that slides in and out of a tube, like in a syringe, a cafetière (French press) or a pump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plunger/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: unblocking a toilet with a plunger. In science: the plunger of a syringe pushes liquid or air; experiments with air pressure. In cooking: a cafetière plunger pushes the coffee down.

### examples

- Dad used a plunger to unblock the sink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plunger/#x1)
- Push the plunger slowly to squeeze out the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plunger/#x2)
- The nurse pressed the syringe plunger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plunger/#x3)
- Press the plunger on the cafetière to make the coffee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plunger/#x4)
- The plunger made a loud sucking sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plunger/#x5)
- Pull back the plunger to fill the syringe with air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plunger/#x6)

### note

Countable. From «plunge» (push or dive in). It works by changing air or water pressure.

### In the corpora

- [Pulling back a syringe's plunger makes more room inside, the pressure drops, and the outside air pushes water in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/16-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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