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# carpentry

noun (carpentry, uncountable)

«carpentry» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Carpentry is the skill or job of making and fixing things from wood, like tables, doors and roof frames. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/#m1)
2. The woodwork itself: the carpentry in the old church. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used in design and technology lessons, jobs talk (a carpenter), Bible stories (Joseph and Jesus were carpenters, the Gospels say) and safety (tools, goggles).

### Examples

- Uncle Ben learned carpentry at college. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/#x1)
- Carpentry needs careful measuring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/#x2)
- We did some simple carpentry in DT. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/#x3)
- The carpentry in this house is beautiful. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/#x4)
- Jesus learned carpentry from Joseph, Christians believe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/#x5)
- Wear goggles when you do carpentry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable: no «a carpentry». Person: carpenter. In maths problems carpentry means measuring lengths and cutting: «measure twice, cut once».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «carpentry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carpentry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«carpentry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/carpentry.html) on Mova free.