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# vase

«vase» in Mova's school dictionary: **a container, often tall and pretty, for holding flowers…** — 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 (vase, vases)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A vase is a container, often tall and pretty, for holding flowers in water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#m1)

2) A vase can also be an ornament that stands on its own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a place or container: flowers in a vase; flowers shared equally into vases; in art, a vase is often drawn in a still life

### examples

- There were 6 roses in the vase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x1)
- She put 24 flowers into 4 vases equally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x2)
- Each vase holds 5 flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x3)
- How many flowers are in the vase now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x4)
- Fill the vase with water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x5)
- The cat knocked over the vase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x6)
- Grandma's vase is very old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x7)
- He painted a vase of sunflowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x8)
- The glass vase broke into pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x9)
- She put the tulips in a blue vase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x10)
- Why, I did not even know that the vase had olives in it! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vase/#x11)

### note

A container: «into N vases equally» divides, «each vase holds N» multiplies. Trap: vases are not the flowers. Americans often say «vayss», Britons «vahz».

### In the corpora

- [Example: a boy in Vancouver knocks over his grandma's vase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/8/)
- [She is sad about the vase but proud of him for telling her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/10/)
- [Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/0/)
- [Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/4/)
- [Owen's ball knocked the vase over, and he said his little sister did it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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