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# vinegar

«vinegar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sour liquid made from wine, cider or malt, used 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 (vinegar — uncountable; vinegars for kinds)

### meaning for a pupil

Vinegar is a sour liquid made from wine, cider or malt, used to flavour food, to keep food (pickles) and for cleaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in cooking: salt and vinegar on chips, vinegar in salad dressing, pickled onions. In science: vinegar is an acid; mixed with bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) it fizzes and makes carbon dioxide (volcano experiment). Cleaning: vinegar removes limescale.

### examples

- I like salt and vinegar on my chips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#x1)
- Vinegar tastes sour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#x2)
- Mix vinegar and baking soda to make a fizzing volcano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#x3)
- Vinegar is an acid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#x4)
- Gherkins are kept in vinegar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#x5)
- Grandma cleans the windows with vinegar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#x6)
- Turn the litmus paper red with vinegar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#x7)
- Fred, I must pour out the vinegar, it is so heavy." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vinegar/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: "some vinegar". Safety: vinegar can sting your eyes; wear goggles in experiments. Pronounced "VIN-i-ger".

### In the corpora

- [Copper slowly reacts with air and goes dull brown; vinegar with a pinch of salt makes a dull coin shiny again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/12/)
- [Vinegar is water with acetic acid in it, made by bacteria from wine or cider.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/10/)
- [Most germs cannot grow in acid, so pickles keep for months in vinegar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/11/)
- [Add a splash of vinegar and it turns pink; add a pinch of baking soda and it turns blue-green.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/1/)
- [Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in alkali; not every plant colour changes the same way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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