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# vehicle

«vehicle» in Mova's school dictionary: **something that carries people or things from place to…** — 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 (vehicle, vehicles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A vehicle is something that carries people or things from place to place, like a car, bus, truck, train or bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#m1)

2) A vehicle can also be a way of getting an idea across, like a story used as a vehicle for a lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a thing counted (vehicles in a parking lot, on a ferry); wheels or seats counted per vehicle: wheels = vehicles × 4. Safety: look out for vehicles before crossing the road; emergency vehicles have sirens. In science: electric vehicles run on batteries. Phrases: motor vehicle, emergency vehicle, electric vehicle, no vehicles allowed.

### examples

- There are 24 vehicles in the parking lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x1)
- Each vehicle has 4 wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x2)
- A ferry can carry 12 vehicles on each trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x3)
- 5 vehicles left the garage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x4)
- Fire engines and ambulances are emergency vehicles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x5)
- No vehicles are allowed in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x6)
- Watch for vehicles before you cross the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x7)
- An electric vehicle runs on a battery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x8)
- The clumsy vehicle stopped at the gate of the town; all the places had been taken, for there were twelve passengers in the coach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vehicle/#x9)

### note

Say «VEE-ih-kl»; the h is silent. Countable. Just the thing counted; «each vehicle has 4 wheels» is a rate, so wheels = vehicles × 4. Trap: cars and bikes are both vehicles but have different numbers of wheels.

### In the corpora

- [Self-driving vehicles are being tested, and their safety must be proven before they are used everywhere.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/14/)
- [A siren means an emergency vehicle, such as an ambulance, a fire engine or a police car, is coming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/6/)
- [When you hear a siren near a road, stay on the pavement or sidewalk and wait until the vehicle has passed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/7/)
- [Drivers pull over to let emergency vehicles through, so traffic at a crossing can change suddenly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/8/)
- [The colour and type of a vehicle are useful details for the police.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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