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# puck

«puck» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hard, flat, round rubber disc used in ice hockey…** — 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 puck, pucks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A puck is a hard, flat, round rubber disc used in ice hockey instead of a ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#m1)

2) Puck is also the name of a mischievous fairy in Shakespeare's play «A Midsummer Night's Dream». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In sports (especially in Canada and the USA) the puck is hit with a hockey stick across the ice into the goal. Phrases: «hit the puck», «pass the puck», «drop the puck», «the puck went in».

### examples

- He hit the puck straight into the net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#x1)
- In ice hockey you play with a puck, not a ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#x2)
- The referee dropped the puck to start the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#x3)
- A puck can fly very fast, so players wear helmets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#x4)
- She passed the puck to her teammate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#x5)
- Puck is the cheeky fairy in Shakespeare's play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#x6)
- Puck was careful not always to play his tricks in the same place, but visited one village after another, so that everyone trembled lest he should be the next victim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puck/#x7)

### note

Countable: puck, pucks. Ice hockey is called just «hockey» in Canada and the USA; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand «hockey» usually means field hockey, played with a ball. Air hockey also uses a small puck.

### In the corpora

- [A puck slides a long way on ice because there is little friction to slow it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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