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# scientist

noun (a scientist, scientists)

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

## Everyday

A person who studies the natural world by asking questions, making careful observations and doing experiments, and who uses evidence to find out how things work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science lessons, pupils «work like scientists»: they ask questions, predict, plan a fair test, measure, record results and draw conclusions; famous scientists include Marie Curie, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Scientists change their ideas when new evidence shows they were wrong. Kinds include biologists, chemists, physicists and astronomers. Phrases: «a famous scientist», «work like a scientist», «scientists say».

### Examples

- A scientist studies the world by doing experiments. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x1)
- Marie Curie was a famous scientist who studied radioactivity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x2)
- When she grows up, she wants to be a scientist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x3)
- Scientists use evidence, not guesses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x4)
- Today we will work like scientists and test our predictions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x5)
- Scientists found a new kind of frog in the rainforest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x6)
- A scientist records her results carefully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x7)
- Good scientists repeat their experiments to check them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scientist/#x8)

### Note

Countable. Spelling trap: «sCIentist» — the c is silent, as in «science». A scientist is not the same as an inventor (who makes new machines) — though some are both. Myth: scientists are not always men in white coats; anyone can be one.

## On Mova

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