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A grouping of words in a sentence
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collocation
Word definitions for collocation in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Collocation is a procedure used in remote sensing to match measurements from two or more different instruments. This is done for two main reasons: for validation purposes when comparing measurements of the same variable, and to relate measurements of two ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a grouping of words in a sentence the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" [syn: juxtaposition , apposition ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin collocationem (nominative collocatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of collocare (see collocate ). Linguistics sense is attested from 1940.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collocation \Col`lo*ca"tion\, n. [L. collocatio.] The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. --Sir W. Jones. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds. 2 (context countable English) Such a specific grouping. 3 (context linguistics translation studies English) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another metric by which collocations can be classified is according to the behaviour of the constituent words within the immediate context or concordance. ▪ Evidently, there are a number of limitations to the collocation analysis ...
Usage examples of collocation.
Let him steer far away from all those vain philosophies, which endeavor to account for all that is, without admitting that there is a God, separate and apart from the Universe which is his work: which erect Universal Nature into a God, and worship it alone: which annihilate Spirit, and believe no testimony except that of the bodily senses: which, by logical formulas and dextrous collocation of words, make the actual, living, guiding, and protecting God fade into the dim mistiness of a mere abstraction and unreality, itself a mere logical formula.
It drowsed like the older New England cities which one remembers from boyhood, and something in the collocation of roofs and steeples and chimneys and brick walls formed contours touching deep viol-strings of ancestral emotion.
Remembering the tin of boot-polish in his pocket, he allowed his heart to leap in awe at the poetry which existence itself sometimes contrived: the fusion, or at least meaningful collocation, of disparates -- as, for example, a tin of tan boot-polish and himself, Enderby.
This most attractive asterism, which has never ceased to fascinate the imagination of Christendom since it was first devoutly described by the early explorers of the South, is but a passing collocation of brilliant stars.
The slow passing out of existence of those collocations of stars which for thousands of years have formed famous ``constellations,'' preserving the memory of mythological heroes and heroines, and perhaps of otherwise unrecorded history.
But I know one thing: anyone leafing through the catalogue of books will often find, among the collocations that only the librarian understands, one that says ‘Africa,’ and I have even found one that said ‘finis Africae,’ the end of Africa.