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# ticket

«ticket» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small paper or card that shows you paid to ride, watch…** — 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 (ticket, tickets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ticket is a small paper or card that shows you paid to ride, watch a show or go in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#m1)

2) A ticket is a paper with a number for a raffle or lottery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#m2)

3) A parking or speeding ticket is a paper telling a driver to pay a fine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#m3)

4) A ticket in a shop or queue shows your turn or price. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a thing bought and sold at a price; tickets per person, money from tickets: cost = number of tickets × price; adult and child prices. Everyday: bus ticket, train ticket, cinema ticket, return ticket, ticket office, raffle ticket.

### examples

- A ticket costs 8 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x1)
- They sold 120 tickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x2)
- An adult ticket costs 10 dollars and a child ticket 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x3)
- How much do 4 tickets cost? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x4)
- Keep your ticket until the end of the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x5)
- Dad got a parking ticket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x6)
- We bought raffle tickets for the school fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x7)
- Show your ticket at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x8)
- She could never have the heart, he thought, to send him a ticket to go and see it, if it had been real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ticket/#x9)

### note

Countable: a ticket, tickets. Cost = number of tickets × price; tickets = money ÷ price. Trap: when adult and child prices differ, multiply each group by its own price before adding.

### In the corpora

- [A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/14/)
- [A family ticket is only a good deal after checking: add up the single tickets for your family and compare.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/16/)
- [Cinemas earn a big part of their money from snacks, because much of the ticket money goes to the film company.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/14/)
- [A return ticket takes you there and brings you back: it is 2 journeys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/255-return-tickets/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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