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# sticker

«sticker» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small picture or label with glue on the back that you…** — 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 (sticker, stickers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sticker is a small picture or label with glue on the back that you can stick on things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#m1)

2) A price sticker is a small label in a shop that shows how much something costs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a thing that is counted: stickers are collected, bought in sheets, given and lost; in class a teacher may give a sticker for good work; in everyday life stickers go on notebooks, lunch boxes and fridges; phrases: «a sheet of stickers», «a sticker book», «a gold star sticker»

### examples

- Anna has 9 stickers and gives 4 to a friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#x1)
- Max buys 3 sheets of stickers with 10 stickers on each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#x2)
- Zoe loses a quarter of her stickers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#x3)
- The teacher gave me a gold star sticker for my spelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#x4)
- I stuck a dinosaur sticker on my lunch box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#x5)
- Mia keeps her stickers in a sticker book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#x6)
- Peel the sticker off slowly so it does not tear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#x7)
- The price sticker on the toy says 5 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sticker/#x8)

### note

Countable: a sticker, two stickers. The thing being counted; carries no operation clue. Trap: «sheets of stickers» are groups, not single stickers, so 3 sheets of 10 is 3 × 10 stickers. Safety: do not put stickers in your mouth; little children can choke on them.

### In the corpora

- [Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/11/)
- [Slow down near glass doors and look for stickers on them, because people walk into clean glass and it can break and cut.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/18/)
- [Chloe, who had got a sticker that week, felt hot and jealous and tore the certificate in half.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone/6/)
- [Theo said he'd been «at the dentist», but he had no sticker, no leaflet, no numb mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/19/)
- [Real events usually leave traces, like stickers, receipts, photos or a sore mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/40/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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