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# puddle

«puddle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small pool of water (or other liquid) on the ground…** — 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 puddle, puddles)

### meaning for a pupil

A puddle is a small pool of water (or other liquid) on the ground, often after rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children love jumping in puddles in wellies (rain boots). In safety, puddles can hide holes and be slippery, especially when frozen; never play in puddles near roads, and splashing cars can soak you. Big floodwater is not a puddle: never walk or play in floodwater. In science, puddles dry up because the water evaporates, faster in sun and wind; you can draw round a puddle with chalk to watch it shrink.

### examples

- We jumped in all the puddles on the way home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#x1)
- Put your wellies on; there are puddles everywhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#x2)
- The puddle froze overnight and was very slippery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#x3)
- A car drove through the puddle and splashed us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#x4)
- The puddle got smaller as the water evaporated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#x5)
- The puppy left a puddle on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#x6)
- Draw a chalk line around the puddle and check it later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#x7)
- She saw the dirty puddle in the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puddle/#x8)

### note

Countable: a puddle, puddles. Double d. A puddle is small; a «pond» is a larger body of water that stays; a «pool» can be either. Myth: puddles soak into the ground only — they also evaporate into the air.

### In the corpora

- [Puddles dry faster on sunny, windy days: the sun gives energy and the wind carries the vapour away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/7/)
- [Walk around frozen puddles, because ice is very slippery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/16/)
- [Jump only in shallow puddles away from roads, and never in water you cannot see the bottom of.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/11/)
- [Deep or flooded puddles can hide holes, drains and sharp things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/12/)
- [Maddie had fallen in a puddle at break, and her trousers were brown to the knees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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