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# resource

«resource» in Mova's school dictionary: **Something useful that you can use to help you do a job…** — 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 resource, resources)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Something useful that you can use to help you do a job, such as books, tools, money or time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#m1)

2) Natural resources are useful things from nature, such as water, wood, oil, coal and soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#m2)

3) A person's skills and ideas that help them cope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science, natural resources are things people take from nature; some are renewable, like sunlight and wind, and some are non-renewable, like coal and oil, which can run out. In school, resources are learning materials: books, websites, worksheets. In everyday life, saving resources means not wasting water, paper or energy. Phrases: natural resources, renewable resource, resource centre, waste resources, school resources.

### examples

- Water is a precious resource. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#x1)
- The library is a great resource for projects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#x2)
- Coal and oil are non-renewable resources. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#x3)
- Wind and sunlight are renewable resources. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#x4)
- Our teacher shared online resources for the topic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#x5)
- We must not waste resources like paper and electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#x6)
- The island had few resources, so people traded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#x7)
- He was full of resource and courage, and finally outwitted and subdued all his foes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resource/#x8)

### note

Countable, usually plural: resources. Stress is on the second part in British English (re-SORCE) and often on the first in American English (REE-source). "Renewable" means it can be replaced naturally; "non-renewable" means it will run out. Do not confuse with "source" (where something comes from).

### In the corpora

- [Ask before using a cardboard box for a model, and recycle it afterwards to save resources.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/11/)
- [Places that hold rare resources become important, and sometimes the targets of greed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/3/)
- [Natural resources are useful things from nature, such as water, soil, wood, fish, metals, oil and gas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/9/)
- [Natural resources are materials and energy that people take from nature.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/5/)
- [Renewable resources, such as sunlight, wind and flowing water, are not used up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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