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# ribbon

«ribbon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, narrow strip of cloth used for tying, decorating…** — 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 (ribbon, ribbons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ribbon is a long, narrow strip of cloth used for tying, decorating or wrapping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#m1)

2) A ribbon can be a prize or badge: a blue ribbon for first place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#m2)

3) A ribbon is any long narrow strip: a ribbon of road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#m3)

4) «Cut to ribbons» means cut into many pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a length measured in inches, feet or meters; cut into equal pieces or used for bows; ribbon left. In everyday life: wrapping presents, hair ribbons, ribbon-cutting at an opening. In school fairs and shows: first-prize blue ribbons (USA); rosettes (UK). In stories: «a ribbon of river wound through the valley».

### examples

- She has a ribbon 3 meters long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x1)
- Each bow needs 25 cm of ribbon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x2)
- He cut the ribbon into 6 equal pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x3)
- How much ribbon is left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x4)
- She tied her hair with a red ribbon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x5)
- We wrapped the present and tied it with ribbon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x6)
- His pumpkin won a blue ribbon at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x7)
- The mayor cut the ribbon to open the new library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x8)
- The road was a thin ribbon across the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x9)
- It had pink ribbons to tie up its sleeves, so the Queen saw at once it was a girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribbon/#x10)

### note

Cutting a ribbon into equal pieces is division; pieces used are subtracted from the length. Trap: change meters to centimeters before mixing them (1 m = 100 cm). Bows needed × length per bow = ribbon used.

### In the corpora

- [A snail eats with a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny teeth that scrapes food like a file.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/13/)
- [Mila keeps every letter in a shoebox with a ribbon round it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/11/)
- [Imagine a long green ribbon of fields on a huge sandy map: that ribbon is where nearly all Egyptians lived.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/2/)
- [A ribbon 3 metres long is 300 centimetres; cutting off 45 centimetres leaves 300 − 45 = 255 centimetres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/98-metres-centimetres/2/)
- [A ribbon is 60 cm. 1/3 is cut off: 60 / 3 = 20 cm, and 40 cm remain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/173-fractions-of-the-rest/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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