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# menu

noun (a menu, menus)

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

## Everyday

1. A menu is a list of the food and drinks you can choose in a café or restaurant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#m1)
2. A menu is the food planned for a meal or a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#m2)
3. On a computer or phone, a menu is a list of choices on the screen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life, pupils read menus to choose and pay; in maths problems, menus with prices are used for adding costs and giving change. In computing, you open a menu and click an option. Phrases: "on the menu", "kids' menu", "set menu", "drop-down menu", "main menu".

### Examples

- Can we see the menu, please? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x1)
- Fish and chips is on the menu today. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x2)
- The kids' menu has pizza and pasta. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x3)
- The school lunch menu changes every week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x4)
- Click the menu and choose "Save". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x5)
- Using the menu, work out the cost of two burgers and a drink. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x6)
- Go back to the main menu to start the game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menu/#x7)

### Note

Countable: menus (not menues). Comes from French. In maths problems, read prices carefully: £, $, pence and cents.

## On Mova

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