{
    "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’."
}