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# scientist

«scientist» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who studies the natural world by asking…** — 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 scientist, scientists)

### meaning for a pupil

A person who studies the natural world by asking questions, making careful observations and doing experiments, and who uses evidence to find out how things work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, pupils «work like scientists»: they ask questions, predict, plan a fair test, measure, record results and draw conclusions; famous scientists include Marie Curie, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Scientists change their ideas when new evidence shows they were wrong. Kinds include biologists, chemists, physicists and astronomers. Phrases: «a famous scientist», «work like a scientist», «scientists say».

### examples

- A scientist studies the world by doing experiments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x1)
- Marie Curie was a famous scientist who studied radioactivity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x2)
- When she grows up, she wants to be a scientist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x3)
- Scientists use evidence, not guesses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x4)
- Today we will work like scientists and test our predictions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x5)
- Scientists found a new kind of frog in the rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x6)
- A scientist records her results carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x7)
- Good scientists repeat their experiments to check them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x8)

### note

Countable. Spelling trap: «sCIentist» — the c is silent, as in «science». A scientist is not the same as an inventor (who makes new machines) — though some are both. Myth: scientists are not always men in white coats; anyone can be one.

### In the corpora

- [Whether that counts as real understanding is something scientists still argue about, but it has never felt sad in a body.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/4/)
- [Scientists still study why we dream; there is no evidence that dream pictures have fixed hidden meanings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/14/)
- [Yet the same technology was reported to help scientists find new antibiotics.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/22-news-jobs-art-safety/5/)
- [Not one person: governments, companies, scientists and ordinary people all have a say, through laws, votes and choices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/5/)
- [Governments, companies, scientists and ordinary people all have a say in the rules for AI, through laws, votes and choices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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