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# tripod

«tripod» in Mova's school dictionary: **A stand with three legs used to hold a camera, telescope…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a tripod, tripods)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A stand with three legs used to hold a camera, telescope or other equipment steady. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#m1)

2) (science) A three-legged metal stand for holding a beaker or dish over a Bunsen burner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#m2)

3) Any object or creature with three legs, such as the alien machines in "The War of the Worlds". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils put a gauze on a tripod above a Bunsen burner to heat water safely. In photography a tripod stops photos from being blurry. In maths and design lessons three legs make a stand stable even on bumpy ground, because three points always sit flat. Phrases: on a tripod, camera tripod.

### examples

- Put the beaker on the tripod and gauze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#x1)
- The photographer set her camera on a tripod. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#x2)
- A tripod doesn't wobble, even on uneven ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#x3)
- We watched the stars through a telescope on a tripod. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#x4)
- In the old story, giant alien tripods walked across England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#x5)
- Be careful: the tripod gets hot over the Bunsen burner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#x6)
- Next, she placed the tripod over it, and the kettle on top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tripod/#x7)

### note

Countable: a tripod, tripods. "Tri" means three, "pod" means foot (as in tricycle, triangle). Maths fact: three points always lie on one flat plane, which is why a three-legged stool does not rock but a four-legged one can.

### In the corpora

- [Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger, near the tip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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