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# pullover

«pullover» in Mova's school dictionary: **A knitted top with sleeves that you pull on over your…** — 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 pullover, pullovers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A knitted top with sleeves that you pull on over your head; a jumper or sweater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#m1)

2) (rare) Anything that is pulled over something else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday and school life, children wear a pullover in cold weather or as part of a school uniform. In maths word problems: «A pullover costs $15 in a 20% off sale». In stories, Granny knits a woolly pullover. Phrases: «a woolly pullover», «school pullover», «a V-neck pullover».

### examples

- Put on your pullover; it's cold outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#x1)
- My school pullover is navy blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#x2)
- Gran knitted me a red pullover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#x3)
- A pullover costs £12 and a hat costs £5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#x4)
- He took off his pullover after running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#x5)
- I can't find my pullover in lost property. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#x6)
- This pullover is too itchy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pullover/#x7)

### note

Countable: pullovers. One word. Similar: jumper (UK, Australia, Ireland, NZ), sweater (US, Canada), jersey (NZ). Do not confuse with «pull over» (verb: a car stops at the side of the road).

### In the corpora

- [un pull ("PUL") is a jumper, borrowed from the English word pullover and made shorter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/17-clothes/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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