Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To place together or in proper order; arrange side by side.
- intransitive verb To occur in a collocation. Used of words.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To set or place together.
- In civil law, to allocate or allot (the proceeds of a judicial sale) among creditors, in satisfaction of their claims.
- Set or placed together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Set; placed.
- transitive verb To set or place; to set; to station.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb linguistics, translation studies (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a
collocation ; for example strong collocates with tea. - verb rare To
arrange oroccur side by side . - verb obsolete, transitive To set or place; to
station . - noun linguistics A
component word of acollocation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb have a strong tendency to occur side by side
- verb group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Often the clandestine decision to "collocate" a shiny new school in a hell-hole building is the first step toward closing a neighboring school.
Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011
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Note how often they collocate with verbs like claim, deny, suggest, suspect, as well as with modals like may.
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Often the clandestine decision to "collocate" a shiny new school in a hell-hole building is the first step toward closing a neighboring school.
Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011
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Often the clandestine decision to "collocate" a shiny new school in a hell-hole building is the first step toward closing a neighboring school.
Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011
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Note how often they collocate with verbs like claim, deny, suggest, suspect, as well as with modals like may.
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Often the clandestine decision to "collocate" a shiny new school in a hell-hole building is the first step toward closing a neighboring school.
Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011
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To be fair to Yule, he also includes dancing, swimming and skiing in his list of verbs that collocate with like, but I agree that with “I like dancing/swimming/skiing” there is a stronger implication that I am the performer.
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That sophisticated computers select the best words and collocate them in the best order.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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That sophisticated computers select the best words and collocate them in the best order.
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Also, I hope to use this blog to collocate some of the important papers, articles, websites, etc. that deal with the future of cataloging and metadata
April 2007 2007
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