Word Finder - collocations

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The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.

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Such a specific grouping.

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A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.

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A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x) = y_{0}(x) + \sum_{l=0}^{q}\alpha_{l} y_{l}(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.

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A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.

Introduction to unfamiliar collocations follows upon this, and, only so, is it possible finally to gather scattered examples into a conspectus as instances of one idea or law.

Perhaps the standard might usefully make explicit reference to careful choice of vocabulary and to English usage, including conventional collocations.

You will need to be able to identify common collocations, that is words that go together.

How representative or typical such collocations are of actual language in use can now be tested against corpus evidence.

They practice using the collocations by telling a partner whether the sentences are true or false for them.

Students are given incomplete collocations and semi-fixed expressions that appeared in the texts and try to complete them from memory.

Open the collocation function by clicking on the collocation function by clicking on the Collocations icon or by choosing [Collocation] from the [Query] menu.

He rejects the attempt to explain human personality as " generated by the material molecular aggregate of its own unaided latent power," and affirms that the " universe where the human spirit is more at home than it is among these temporary collocations of matter" is " a universe capable of infinite development, of noble contemplation, and of lofty joy, long after this planet - nay the whole solar system - shall have fulfilled its present spire of destiny, and retired cold and lifeless upon its endless way " (pp. 199-200).

Translation units forming robust, unambiguous collocations (e.g. impart knowledge; trestle scaffold) will be listed without additional information.