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# millilitre

noun (millilitre, millilitres)

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

## Everyday

1. A millilitre is a very small unit for measuring liquid. A litre has 1000 millilitres; a teaspoon holds about 5 millilitres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#m1)
2. It is written ml or mL. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#m2)

### In the lessons

a unit of volume for drinks, medicine, water and juice; problems change millilitres into litres or share liquid into cups; in science you measure liquids in millilitres with a measuring cylinder; in everyday life medicine doses and can sizes are in ml

### Examples

- A bottle holds 500 millilitres of water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x1)
- She pours 250 millilitres into each glass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x2)
- How many millilitres are in 2 litres? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x3)
- The jug has 1200 millilitres of juice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x4)
- Take 5 ml of medicine, as the doctor said. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x5)
- A can of soda holds 330 ml. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x6)
- Fill the measuring cylinder to 50 millilitres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x7)
- A raindrop is much less than one millilitre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millilitre/#x8)

### Note

A unit, not a thing counted. 1000 millilitres = 1 litre. British spelling of milliliter (US). Trap: change litres to millilitres before you add or compare. Safety: medicine is measured with the spoon or syringe that comes with it, not a kitchen spoon.

## On Mova

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