Collocate

Word COLLOCATE
Character 9
Hyphenation col lo cate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Collocate"

What do we mean by collocate?

To place together or in proper order; arrange side by side. intransitive verb

To occur in a collocation. Used of words. intransitive verb

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.

To set or place; to set; to station. transitive verb

Set; placed. adjective

(said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea. verb

To arrange or occur side by side. verb

To set or place; to station. verb

A component word of a collocation. noun

Have a strong tendency to occur side by side verb

Group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side verb

A component word of a collocation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Collocate

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The word "collocate" in example sentences

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 (2011)

Note how often they collocate with verbs like claim, deny, suggest, suspect, as well as with modals like may. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That sophisticated computers select the best words and collocate them in the best order. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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 ❋ Unknown (2007)

Biscuits and fish are often treated as identical, and so collocate awkwardly with many. ❋ DC (2009)

Carmen Dayrell wrote a paper on “A quantitative approach to compare collocation patterns in translated and non-translated texts” which contains a detailed section on how to decide what a collocate is. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now that Marty has made the decision that he will write a simple Perl script to pull collocates out of data for me I need to give him a more precise specification of a collocate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then we need to decide how we will define a collocate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cross Reference for Collocate

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What does collocate mean?

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