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# smartphone

«smartphone» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mobile phone that is also a small computer: it can go…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a smartphone, smartphones)

### meaning for a pupil

A smartphone is a mobile phone that is also a small computer: it can go online, take photos, play games, use apps and make calls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smartphone/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life, online safety lessons and computing lessons (apps, screen time, passwords); in stories it shows modern life; phrases: on my smartphone, smartphone app, smartphone screen.

### examples

- Mum checks the bus times on her smartphone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smartphone/#x1)
- A smartphone can take photos and videos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smartphone/#x2)
- My brother is not allowed a smartphone until he is twelve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smartphone/#x3)
- Never share your smartphone passcode with strangers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smartphone/#x4)
- The smartphone battery died halfway through the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smartphone/#x5)
- We used a smartphone app to identify birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smartphone/#x6)
- Too much smartphone time before bed can spoil sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smartphone/#x7)

### note

Countable: a smartphone, two smartphones. Written as one word. People often just say «phone». Uses «a» (a smartphone).

### In the corpora

- [The first mobile phones in the 1980s were as big as bricks, and from 2007 smartphones with touch screens began to spread.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/14/)
- [An anachronism is something that belongs to another time, such as a Roman soldier with a wristwatch or a Viking with a smartphone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/9/)
- [The World Wide Web went public in 1991, YouTube started in 2005, and smartphones became common after 2007.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/3/)
- [The World Wide Web went public in 1991, YouTube started in 2005 and smartphones became common after 2007.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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