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{
"term": "science",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "knowledge about the structure and behaviour of the natural and physical world, based on facts that you can prove, for example by experiments",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "new developments in **science and technology**"
},
{
"text": "the advance of modern science"
},
{
"text": "the laws of science"
},
{
"text": "His essay is not based on good science."
},
{
"text": "This rule is based on bad science."
},
{
"text": "His experiments have achieved notoriety in the world of science."
},
{
"text": "Research is critical to advancing medical science."
},
{
"text": "The magazine contains a lot of popular science."
},
{
"text": "our ability to understand the science of environmental degradation"
}
],
"topics": ["Scientific research"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["modern", "bad", "junk"],
"verb + science": ["advance", "understand"],
"science + noun": ["curriculum", "education", "research"],
"preposition": ["science of"],
"phrases": [
"the advancement of science",
"the development of science",
"the history of science"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the study of science",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "science students/teachers/classes"
},
{
"text": "She is trying to encourage more young people to study science."
},
{
"text": "a writer of popular science books"
},
{
"text": "I was trying to remember what I had learnt about gravity in school science."
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["modern", "bad", "junk"],
"verb + science": ["advance", "understand"],
"science + noun": ["curriculum", "education", "research"],
"preposition": ["science of"],
"phrases": [
"the advancement of science",
"the development of science",
"the history of science"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a particular branch of science",
"sensetop": "science of something",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "medical/environmental science"
},
{
"text": "the biological sciences"
},
{
"text": "to study one of the sciences"
},
{
"text": "He was a pioneer in the science of genetics.",
"contextForm": "science of something"
},
{
"text": "Meteorology is the science of the weather."
},
{
"text": "Politics is as much an art form as an exact science."
}
],
"topics": ["Scientific research", "Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["modern", "bad", "junk"],
"verb + science": ["advance", "understand"],
"science + noun": ["curriculum", "education", "research"],
"preposition": ["science of"],
"phrases": [
"the advancement of science",
"the development of science",
"the history of science"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a system for organizing the knowledge about a particular subject, especially one that deals with aspects of human behaviour or society",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a science of international politics"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to confuse somebody by using technical or complicated language that they do not understand",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsaɪəns/",
"audio": "sc/science/science__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsaɪəns/",
"audio": "sc/science/science__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting knowledge): from Old French, from Latin scientia, from scire ‘know’."
}