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# sputnik

«sputnik» in Mova's school dictionary: **Sputnik was the first man-made satellite sent into orbit…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Sputnik, a sputnik, sputniks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sputnik was the first man-made satellite sent into orbit around the Earth, by the Soviet Union. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#m1)

2) Any of the Soviet satellites with that name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#m2)

3) The word is Russian for «fellow traveller» or «satellite». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons about space, Sputnik began the space race between the USA and the Soviet Union. It was a metal ball with aerials that sent out beeps. Phrases: Sputnik moment (a sudden shock that makes people work harder).

### examples

- Sputnik was the first satellite to orbit the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#x1)
- Sputnik sent beeping radio signals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#x2)
- Sputnik started the space race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#x3)
- The satellite was a shiny metal ball with four long aerials. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#x4)
- Sputnik orbited the Earth in about 96 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#x5)
- We made a model of Sputnik in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sputnik/#x6)

### note

Usually written with a capital S as a name. From Russian. Maths: Sputnik orbited in about 96 minutes, so about 15 orbits a day (24 × 60 ÷ 96 = 15).

### In the corpora

- [In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/6/)
- [The first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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