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# umbrella

«umbrella» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cover of cloth on a folding frame and stick that keeps…** — 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 (umbrella, umbrellas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An umbrella is a cover of cloth on a folding frame and stick that keeps you dry in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#m1)

2) A beach umbrella or sun umbrella keeps off the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#m2)

3) An umbrella term or group covers many smaller things together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: things counted or bought at a price; how many are left after selling. In everyday life: a rainy day, a beach umbrella, sharing an umbrella. In stories: Mary Poppins flies with her umbrella. Phrases: «put up an umbrella», «under an umbrella», «umbrella stand».

### examples

- An umbrella costs 9 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x1)
- The shop sold 14 umbrellas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x2)
- She has 3 umbrellas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x3)
- How many umbrellas are left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x4)
- Take an umbrella, it's going to rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x5)
- We sat in the shade of a beach umbrella. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x6)
- Mary Poppins floated down holding her umbrella. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x7)
- The wind turned my umbrella inside out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x8)
- Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/umbrella/#x9)

### note

«An umbrella» (it starts with a vowel sound). Some people say opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck — that is only a superstition. Maths: thing counted; no clue to the operation; left = start − sold.

### In the corpora

- [Wild orangutans hold big leaves over their heads like umbrellas, and zoo orangutans use sacks and blankets the same way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/6/)
- [A squirrel's bushy tail helps it balance and works as a blanket and an umbrella.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/11/)
- [Orangutans make umbrellas and roofs from big leaves, learning from their mothers, with whom they stay for about 7 or 8 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles/10/)
- [His cap is missing from its peg and his new goloshes from beside the umbrella-stand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/10/)
- [Water, sand and snow reflect UV, so you can burn even under an umbrella or on a ski slope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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