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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
correlate
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ Electricity sales are closely correlated to economic growth.
▪ In our studies pepsin output correlated closely with acid output.
highly
▪ Tests show that many intellectual activities are highly correlated.
▪ Because these constructs are highly correlated they may also be encircled as a way of indicating this clustering.
▪ Firstly, traffic will be highly correlated if personal computers can all act on the same information at the same time.
▪ To assume that gun shows and gun ownership are highly correlated is no great leap of logic.
▪ Deletions of chromosome 17p are found in 75% of colorectal cancers and are highly correlated with mutation of the remaining p53 gene.
positively
▪ Better-trained and more-qualified workforces also correlate positively with the creation of small companies.
▪ Below these levels, species richness is linearly positively correlated with soil magnesium, but above it negatively so.
▪ This is because f t and t are positively correlated, so that f t and will be negatively correlated.
▪ If the endowments are positively correlated, and the share of capital is less than 50 percent, the inequality-reducing effect is larger.
▪ The proportion of children passing Ordinary and Advanced level examinations is positively correlated with social class.
▪ Cohesion has been found to correlate positively with group productivity and member satisfaction.
▪ In research into effective managers it is this background theme which correlates positively with success, not the recognition theme.
significantly
▪ Data in the Table show that the scan score correlated significantly with all laboratory measurements except the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
▪ Blood flow was not significantly correlated with age or length of time since surgery in any of the groups.
▪ Membranous expression of pre-S1 and pre-S2 correlated significantly with active hepatitis B virus replication.
strongly
▪ The duration of the dance circuit is strongly correlated with the distance from the hive to the food.
▪ The academic support that parents provide at home is strongly correlated with how much young people achieve.
▪ Factors which correlate strongly with autonomy are: Strong goal orientation, even to the point of creating unnecessary hurdles.
well
▪ Serum gastrin concentrations did not correlate well with changes in the endocrine cell density.
▪ The scan score correlated well with C-reactive protein and alpha-1 acid glycoprotein.
▪ But there is considerable variation between countries and the differences do not correlate well with current fertility.
■ VERB
find
▪ Table 2 lists managements practices which have been found to correlate with effective risk management.
▪ Of all abilities only the capacity to conceptualize has been found to correlate with the performance of managers.
▪ Cohesion has been found to correlate positively with group productivity and member satisfaction.
show
▪ Surface hydrophobicity has been shown to be correlated with adherence in E coli associated with gastroenteritis and pyelonephritis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blood flow was not significantly correlated with age or length of time since surgery in any of the groups.
▪ Electricity sales are closely correlated to economic growth.
▪ In some way, mutations must correlate to produce an overall advantage for an organism as a whole.
▪ Most, but not all, of these grammatical differences are correlated with semantic differences.
▪ Newspaper accounts and official reports from both sides correlated substantially.
▪ Serum gastrin concentrations did not correlate well with changes in the endocrine cell density.
▪ This assertion leads directly to the proposition that money national income and the nominal money supply must be directly correlated with each other.
II.noun
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▪ According to Goodwin, whose work I have referred to already, this difference has linguistic correlates.
▪ Death is the correlate of life.
▪ Lesbianism, too, is often described as a correlate of biology.
▪ So there are some linguistic correlates that go with these particular units as we would expect since this is a variation analysis.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Correlate

Correlate \Cor"re*late\ (k?r"r?-l?t), n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.
--South.

Correlate

Correlate \Cor`re*late"\, v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.
--Darwin.

Correlate

Correlate \Cor`re*late"\ (k[o^]r`r[-e]*l[=a]t" or k[o^]r"r[-e]*l[=a]t`), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Correlated; p. pr. & vb. n. Correlating.] [Pref. cor- + relate.] To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
--Tylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
correlate

1640s, perhaps a back-formation from correlation.

correlate

1742, back-formation from correlation, or else a verbal use of the noun. Related: Correlated; correlating; correlative.

Wiktionary
correlate

n. Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative vb. 1 (context transitive English) To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics 2 (context intransitive English) To be related by a correlation

WordNet
correlate

adj. mutually related [syn: correlative, correlated]

correlate
  1. n. either of two correlated variables [syn: correlative]

  2. v. to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation; "Do these facts correlate?"

  3. bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation; "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information"

Usage examples of "correlate".

The degree of hierarchy and centralization operative in a given tribe seems to correlate with the length of time it has been sedentary: the Bani Isad, for example, which has been settled for several centuries, is much more centralized than the Ash Shabana, which has been sedentary only since the end of the nineteenth century.

Kupfermann, I, Castellucci, V, Pinsker, H, and Kandel, E R Neuronal correlates of habituation and dishabituation of the gill-withdrawal reflex in Aplysia.

On the other hand, eating lots of fruits and vegetables has always been correlated with a lower cancer risk.

She and Spock were huddled against the hull of the Tholian ship, the Vulcan correlating her information while Glasser and her team continued to work over the vessel.

The ambiguity must be resolved by turning the ship and seeing which new two directions the tonal seems to be coming from, or correlating a narrowband towed array bearing to a broadband bearing.

Sonar, narrowband sonar contact Sierra nine six now bears one seven eight and correlates to broadband trace on that same bearing, turn count is pending but screw is seven bladed.

Experiments showing that the effects of protein synthesis inhibitors on memory could be mimicked by injecting large quantities of some of their constituent amino acids were made by one of my earliest graduate students, John Hambley, on his return to Australia: Hambley, J, and Rogers, L J Some neurochemical correlates of permanent learning deficits associated with intracerebral injections of amino acids in young chick brain.

While neuroscientists may identify specific neurophysiological events that arise as correlates to specific conscious states, it is not apparent what that would tell us about the nature or the origins of consciousness.

But precisely because these quadrants are all so intimately correlated, I can indeed attempt an aggressive reductionism, and it can actually seem to make a lot of sense.

The patterns formed by this difference in treering growth can be correlated between living and dead trees.

The more I learn about how this fire started and the magics that went into it, the better my chance of correlating those data with one or more of the consortia that use the Devonshire dump.

Everybody agrees that mental states and structures have some sort of correlates in brain physiology, and this is all I mean by the symbols SF1, etc.

All of this work is ultimately to help us cultivate and enjoy the intense feeling of energy flow that correlates with being fully alive.

Advocates of science, on the other hand, bolster their position by pointing to a growing body of neuroscientific knowledge of correlates between specific brain functions and specific mental processes.

Neuroscientists, too, have begun to identify some of the brain correlates to specific states of human consciousness.