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   collocate

   verb

   • 1. (of a word) be habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance: "‘maiden’ collocates with ‘voyage’"
   • 2. place side by side or in a particular relation: rare "McAndrew was a collocated facility with Argentia Naval Station"

   noun

   • 1. a word that is habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance: "collocates for the word ‘mortgage’ include ‘lend’ and ‘property’"

   Word Origin early 16th century (in collocate (sense 2 of the verb)): from Latin collocat- ‘placed together’, from the verb collocare, from col- ‘together’ + locare ‘to place’. collocate (sense 1 of the verb) dates from the 1950s.

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   What does collocate mean?

   • Blossom Word Game Pick the best words! The meaning of COLLOCATE is to set or arrange in a place or position; especially : to set side by side. How to use collocate in a sentence.

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   What are some examples of collocating nouns?

   • Notably, there are strong collocating nouns with the modifier use of staple, of which food, diet and industries are the most prominent examples. For example, the verb depend collocates with the preposition on and not with of. But the inclusion of separate collocate lists also provides support for any user wishing to write.

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   What is a verbal collocate?

   • From the viewpoint of the classification of word combinations in terms of collocations, these approaches determine, for a given verbal collocate, a class of bases. It collocates in all cases with a vocative and is used emphatically to ask the addressee to pay attention to what is to follow.

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   Does College collocate with student?

   • The word “college” collocates with “student.” Recent Examples on the Web In the aftermath of the pandemic, IBM simply reopened 100 office locations across the country to see how individual employees and teams would use the opportunity to collocate.

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   Which preposition collocates with a non-telic verb?

   • For example, the verb depend collocates with the preposition on and not with of. Eventual completeness of the inference is guaranteed, since triples that may emit new knowledge are gradually collocated on the same node. None of those early tokens collocates with a non-telic verb such as those with stative meanings.

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   Does bump into collocate with a adverb?

   • According to this dictionary, bump into does not normally collocate with abstract nouns such as a new expression or a word like although. It is not surprising that pejorative adverbs such as terribly or dreadfully should collocate with wrong only.

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     COLLOCATE translate: （詞或片語）搭配，組合. Learn more in the...

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     COLLOCATE translate: （词或短语）搭配，组合. Learn more in the...

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   The meaning of COLLOCATE is to set or arrange in a place or position; especially : to set side by side. How to use collocate in a sentence.

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   In linguistics, a collocate of a particular word is another word which often occurs with that word.

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   Collocate definition: to set or place together, especially side by side.. See examples of COLLOCATE used in a sentence.

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   1. to arrange in proper order, esp. to place side by side. v.i. 2. (of a word) to enter into a collocation. [1505–15; < Latin collocātus, past participle of collocāre to set up, arrange = col- col - 1 + locāre to place; see locate]

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   In linguistics, a collocate of a particular word is another word which often occurs with that word.