[
US
/kɑɫəˈkeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- a grouping of words in a sentence
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the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
How To Use collocation In A Sentence
- The surface concentration of the adsorbed surfactants, the surface velocity and the migration velocity of the bubble are obtained by a boundary collocation technique.
- The surface concentration of the adsorbed surfactants, the surface velocity and the migration velocity of the bubble are obtained by a boundary collocation technique.
- Movement towards the interior was movement up the country (from as early as 1805) or into the back country; movement towards the settled districts was movement down the country or in: travelers came in from the bush as they can now come in to a station, though out, except in collocations like outdistrict, outfarm, outsettler, outsettlement, belongs to a later period. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
- Achilles Tatius, who was a heedful observer of all these passages, saw with alarm, that by the last collocation the armed Latins were interposed between the Immortal Guards and the discontented citizens, which made it most probable that the conspiracy was discovered, and that Alexius found he had a good right to reckon upon the assistance of Tancred and his forces in the task of suppressing it. Count Robert of Paris
- The enrichment of the database opens up new perspectives in the field of computational lexicography since the semantic networks contained in the collocational database can be used to enhance corpus-based collocation extraction.
- This is no case of mixing in the sense of considerable portions alternating; that would be described as collocation; no; the incoming entity goes through the other to the very minutest point — an impossibility, of course; the less becoming equal to the greater; still, all is traversed throughout and divided throughout. The Six Enneads.
- Tie-in proposal: Trousers of recreational coat collocation, inside can fold wear many, match chatelaine and wrist simply to act the role of.
- This result implies that domain-specific collocations may be superior to general collocations in analysing documents from the same domain.
- The fact that profits is used in collocation with the expression ‘could reasonably be taken to be attributable’ has considerable significance.
- Based on the Theory of Clausal Pivot and the Collocation Theory, the use and distribution of the relation markers of compound sentences are studied in this paper.