I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer network (=a set of computers connected to each other)
▪ A virus had infected the entire computer network.
a dense network of sth
▪ The country is served by a dense network of roads.
a road network (=system of roads that cross or are connected to each other)
▪ the road network in northern France
BBC Asian Network
high-speed computer/network/modem etc
▪ high-speed Internet access
local area network
network adapter
neural network
▪ By 1989, they were using neural networks to assess credit risks.
social networking site
social networking
the rail network/system (=the system of railway lines in a country)
▪ The government has spent £2 billion on improving the country's rail network.
wireless networking
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cellular
▪ Now, however, no fewer than 23 countries have cellular networks up and running.
▪ The state-run telephone company now says it wants to run its own cellular network.
global
▪ Telex and facsimile could make way for latest high-tech global communications network.
▪ People inevitably are changed by their contact with a global network of humanity, Whittle says.
▪ On-line debate discussion groups also will take place on the Internet, the global computer network.
▪ Using 20, 000 volunteers, it succeeded in linking 3, 500 schools in the state to the global computer network.
▪ The Celestri global broadband communications network is expected to be operational by the year 2003.
▪ Today the global network environment reaches over 140 countries, each with its own slant.
▪ Countrywide, more than half of state governments provide the text of bills to users of the global network.
international
▪ Strictly speaking, the Internet is an international network of computers linked up to exchange information.
▪ The international network of politically experienced women is ineffective, exhausted, and has all but disappeared.
▪ The word Internet is a contraction of international and network.
▪ Historically, three barriers have slowed the development of international networks.
▪ The localities described by Cooke and colleagues are essentially local market-places competing with others in the international network.
▪ Until late 1991 such connectivity was available only to individual national and international research networks.
▪ Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies' international networks.
▪ B.. Develop more effective international surveillance networks for the anticipation, recognition, control, and prevention of emerging infectious diseases.
large
▪ A curfew was imposed and news broadcasts by Radio Rumbos, the largest network, were suspended.
▪ Their ability to map a statistical distribution, however, works well only with large networks.
▪ Carers generally operate alone rather than in a large network and, as noted earlier, they are not a single group.
▪ The next step involves dispersing the mothering throughout a larger parenting network.
▪ When parents are part of a larger network, a kind of magic happens.
▪ For large networks, multiple boards can be used to partition the computations even more.
▪ Secure-key distribution becomes cumbersome in large networks.
▪ SURAnet, the strategic networking initiative of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, is another large regional network created in 1986.
local
▪ Graphics: Methods of transmitting broadcast quality vision through a digital local area network.
▪ Private local-area networks on the Internet operate at data transmission speeds of 10 to 100 megabits per second.
▪ It zoomed in to introduce the IntelliServer terminal server for local area networks.
▪ Within a building, a local area network can transfer data at broadband speeds-10 megabytes per second or more.
▪ It is currently working on a system for extending the security provided on Unix and local area network systems.
▪ Tom is connected to a local network, which serves about 1000 users.
▪ Really sophisticated users may like to invest in the ultimate communications link between the two systems, a local area network.
▪ Each local network of cattle stealing provided an alternative system of power and wealth in that locality.
major
▪ Nor will it keep Century 21 offerings off major Internet real-estate networks.
▪ Arrests were also reported of members of a major network of financial corruption involving the falsification of official documents.
▪ It is estimated that every thirty minutes a major network links into the Internet.
▪ What are the major networks that are being used?
▪ Every night an estimated forty million people watch the news on the major networks and millions more watch local news coverage.
▪ The hub-and-spoke system made it harder for small airlines to mount an effective challenge to major networks.
▪ But it does seem more enthusiastically dedicated to the genre than the other major networks.
national
▪ This was followed by final production advice and then the national network broadcast at 6 o'clock.
▪ One of the shortcomings of cellular infrastructure has been the lack of a seamless national network.
▪ Both national networks and international pipelines for data focus heavily on intra-company, intra-organizational, or intra-industry, communications.
▪ Verio supports its operations with highly reliable and scalable national infrastructure and systems including a Tier 1 national network.
▪ And he was allowed to tape a 24-minute interview broadcast on a state-run national television network last Sunday.
▪ In 1940, Lewis could give a speech and all three national networks would carry it live.
▪ There are more than 65 local Protestant radio stations, many of which are linked through national networks.
▪ A national network television audience can judge for itself when the Suns visit the Lakers and attempt to break a two-game skid.
neural
▪ Netbuilder will, according to the company, allow developers to build information analysis systems using multiple neural network and statistical analysis modules.
▪ The neural network picture is still building.
▪ Or, neural networks could be used to teach other neural networks.
▪ Appropriate Tasks Sometimes, tasks appropriate for neural networks are ones humans know how to do.
▪ Although digital computers have to simulate this parallelism, true neural network hardware will really perform the operations in parallel.
▪ Image Processing Imaging applications for neural networks seem to be a natural fit.
▪ However, this application will illustrate in detail other techniques you can adopt in developing an application-specific neural network.
▪ The neural network collects its data incrementally, every five minutes.
new
▪ At first things developed largely unnoticed with new heroin-user networks establishing in Woodchurch, Ford and Moreton.
▪ Some new networks can heal themselves when a break occurs, without any involvement from a repairman.
▪ Plans for a new intelligence network are now being worked out between nine police forces concerned with the problem of travellers.
▪ Each of the digital players had to pick which technology to use in its new networks and phones.
▪ Research and development of new distributed network techniques and software applications 2.
▪ The new network management protocol will now become a Request for Comment.
▪ Both could assume roles on the new cable network.
private
▪ As for Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches, the company is going for customers that want private networks, rather than public telecommunications operators.
▪ The company already offers on-line banking over a private network for its 22 partners.
▪ They are all involved in the production of Protestant radio programmes for national, local and private radio networks.
▪ Verio also offers selected enhanced services such as Web hosting, electronic commerce and virtual private networks.
▪ Sales of virtual private networks increased 22 % from the prior quarter to over 170 units.
▪ Home will create a private network packed in major metropolitan areas.
▪ Supply Chain Management Until recently, these inventory management strategies were implemented through very expensive computer systems and private networks.
▪ Coexisting with them was a whole series of private networks comprising computers hard-wired to one another, sometimes spanning the country.
regional
▪ It comprises a rectangular grid of routes some 400-600m apart, connecting on the city edge to the regional cycle network.
▪ The financial health and viability of regional networks varies.
▪ The local and regional networks were based on the railways with animal power feeding to and distributing from the stations.
▪ State and Campus Networks State and campus networks link into regional networks.
▪ The new fund is intended to establish a regional network of protected areas in seven countries.
▪ Since March 1989 the regional network has grown to include over 300 research and education renters.
▪ SURAnet, the strategic networking initiative of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, is another large regional network created in 1986.
▪ At the regional network level, Verio continued to consolidate its POPs, closing 11 redundant POPs during the quarter.
social
▪ The data presented here suggest that social network structure is implicated in processes of linguistic change in at least two ways.
▪ The second power strategies category, using social networks, builds off the power bases of political access and staff support.
▪ Studies are also investigating changes in the nature of social networks and in family relationships during continuing unemployment.
▪ Set in 1960s Baghdad, its landscape and social networks seem very foreign.
▪ These resources will include primarily the family and/or social network, with which this book is concerned.
▪ Group-based therapies like anxiety management groups have the added ingredient of offering clients an additional social network of others with similar difficulties.
▪ The aim of this research is to apply the methods developed for computer algorithms design and analysis to social networks.
▪ Their lifestyles focused on the social networks around the pubs and clubs that had emerged in the wake of Gay Liberation.
wide
▪ Likewise the concepts of local and wide area networks.
▪ URLs are universal in that they provide access to a wide range of network services which required separate applications in the past.
▪ Henley can offer access to a wide network of specialist researchers and academics to supplement its own faculty if necessary.
▪ We have a wide network of hack routes and we have four teachers.
■ NOUN
area
▪ It is currently working on a system for extending the security provided on Unix and local area network systems.
▪ Within a building, a local area network can transfer data at broadband speeds-10 megabytes per second or more.
▪ The four agreed to support Simple Network Management Protocol as a standard for managing peripherals on a local area network.
▪ Local-#area networks transmitting data at speeds of between 10 megabits per second and 100 megabits per second also exist.
▪ Likewise the concepts of local and wide area networks.
▪ Today's local area network systems are totally inadequate for such gigantic flows of information.
▪ But whether yours is a local area network or a global one, your problem is the same.
cable
▪ The growth of cable networks is even more of a threat.
▪ Hall plays Michael Atwood, a motivated but still far from star announcer working for an all-sports cable network in Atlanta.
▪ When he ran a small cable network in San Francisco, Hindery refused to carry the sport.
▪ U S West also has its own cable network in Atlanta.
▪ A nationwide information technology cable network.
▪ Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
▪ Both could assume roles on the new cable network.
▪ The company has put on hold plans to install cable networks in Los Angeles and Orange County.
computer
▪ And despite the rickety infrastructure, computer networks are growing fast.
▪ On-line debate discussion groups also will take place on the Internet, the global computer network.
▪ It is also conceivable that some constraints might have to be placed upon communications within computer networks.
▪ All of this takes place within computer networks at split-second speed.
▪ Cisco Systems, the world's largest computer network equipment maker, reported better than expected fourth-quarter profits.
▪ Smart said one focus of the remaining operations would be on products for the Internet and office computer networks.
▪ Furthermore, both countries have a good track record in software and have extensive computer networks.
▪ Nationally, the White House and many members of congress are accessible on-line through Internet and various commercial computer networks.
distribution
▪ Our third-party logistics and distribution network covers the United States.
▪ Petersburg, where Duracell is setting up distribution networks.
▪ The Company enjoys a comprehensive distribution network and long-established relationships with the world's leading broadcasters.
▪ Cable systems traditionally use coaxial cable and a series of amplifiers throughout the distribution network.
▪ One is to create national - preferably international - marketing and distribution networks.
▪ Global information distribution networks represent the infrastructure crisscrossing countries and continents.
▪ Shvydkoy hopes that the privatisation of the studios will boost film production and result in a modern distribution network.
management
▪ We will conclude with tactical considerations of network design, performance evaluation, and network management and security techniques.
▪ This effectively creates a limited number of entry points into the backbone and simplifies network management.
▪ This database could be networked using proprietary network management software or other systems.
▪ As a result, enterprise networks, distributed network management, and unusual software applications were implemented in parallel worldwide.
▪ A suite of network management applications is also available, with diagnostic and maintenance features.
▪ The enhancements include faster network throughput, NetView support and Data General-added network management and monitoring utilities.
▪ The new network management protocol will now become a Request for Comment.
▪ Instead, they now intend to integrate the technologies only at the network management level.
news
▪ Erlich remembered his face from the network news, bleak and uncompromising and shamed, when the announcement was made.
▪ He is on a first-name basis with network news producers.
▪ He watched the network news on television in the evening.
▪ On any given weekday night, around thirty-eight million people are watching the network news, with millions more watching local news.
▪ Later, he sat in a café, drinking cappuccino, and watched his own obituary on the network news.
▪ The staid and once-serious network news has begun to look like glitzy local news operations.
▪ It's not as if I worked for a large network news show.
▪ Daniels could face appearances on network news and talk shows and at the White House in the coming months.
rail
▪ Immediate improvements in the rail network, allowing more movement of goods and passengers by rail and less environmental damage.
▪ That accident led to speed restrictions and disruption throughout Britain's rail network during an emergency program of replacing cracked rails.
▪ Incoming/outgoing trains linked with the national rail network at Haybridge Junction, Wellington.
▪ Its loss-making state rail network was split into six geographically-based companies and one freight company in 1987.
▪ I did not believe that there were large savings to be made simply from reducing the size of the rail network.
road
▪ Does the Park actually gain anything from being part of the city's road network, one wonders?
▪ Little attention has been paid to building a road network.
▪ This may be achieved through better driving habits, improved traffic flow systems and road networks and car pooling.
▪ We must therefore continue to provide an efficient road network.
▪ Examples are river and road networks.
▪ There were two overriding needs which had to be met by the Roman road network - military and economic.
▪ In effect the Park has become part of the city's road network.
▪ The paved road continues westwards past the main temple gate and connects with the road network of the upper town.
service
▪ Increasingly, links between different network services are being made available by the service providers.
▪ Worms commonly utilize network services to propagate to other host systems.
▪ Agents are active processes on the network that monitor network service advertisements and manage connections between information producers and consumers.
▪ The message contains an authentication token that allows users to log on to network services.
▪ The network will provide video-on-demand, interactive games, full-motion video, distance learning, personal communications and data network services.
▪ URLs are universal in that they provide access to a wide range of network services which required separate applications in the past.
▪ NetWare will be played as the network services provider and Unix as the application server.
▪ This testbed will explore alternative network technologies, investigate distributed system / network service paradigms, and experiment with gigabit network applications.
telephone
▪ Upgrading the telephone networks to do the same might cost even more.
▪ The maker of switching products used in telephone networks said its fourth-quarter earnings will fall below estimates.
▪ The telephone network around Washington and Baltimore collapses.
▪ When the data hits local and long-distance telephone networks, the speed drops quickly to 2 megabytes.
▪ Although the industry is rapidly introducing advanced digital communication technologies, the telephone network continues to be dependent on analog transmission.
▪ This model is unlike the telephone networks, where payment settlement is a critical part.
▪ The construction company Bouygues won in late 1994 the license to operate a third mobile telephone network in the country.
television
▪ And he was allowed to tape a 24-minute interview broadcast on a state-run national television network last Sunday.
▪ But the television networks are doing less with foreign news, as everyone knows.
▪ At the time, the television networks served up images of Gap-wearing middle-managers having a day out.
▪ That sport television networks use to deliberately bore football, baseball, basketball and hockey fans.
▪ The controversy deepened with obvious pressure corning from various quarters being put on the authors and the television network.
▪ X is a well-known newsman who works for a radio and television network.
▪ It would certainly distract the attention of the powerful commercial groups that are about to join battle over cable television networks.
▪ The television networks were barely seven weeks old when they inaugurated their first convention coverage.
■ VERB
build
▪ Perhaps the manufacturer lacks sufficient capital to build the network.
▪ San Diego officials are encouraging the building of fiber-optic networks through the City of the Future program, announced earlier this month.
▪ This process will build upon existing networks and create new ones. 3.
▪ We can not build a network out of fragmentized defeat.
▪ Diller reportedly is trying to build a national network of television stations that would offer sports and entertainment programming.
▪ Over the years, they built a network of local dealerships and warehouses to sell equipment and provide service and repairs.
▪ Also among the hardest hit were area makers of equipment used to build computer networks.
▪ Little attention has been paid to building a road network.
connect
▪ He also reckons there are underlying growth trends in the market for connecting personal computers to networks.
▪ But when they are connected to the network, they can access information from all over the world via the Internet.
▪ It also connects into Ethernet networks, and Token Ring will be available by the end of the year.
▪ Attracting business also depends on connecting to information networks.
▪ The result is to connect up a network of contracts by a uniform set of rules and thus give them multilateral force.
▪ Tom is connected to a local network, which serves about 1000 users.
create
▪ I've always wanted to be involved in things that tried to somehow create a women's network.
▪ In 1993, and 1994, I was constantly having to work the phones and create a network.
▪ The life created by the television network is surreal.
▪ Harder flours can absorb more liquid and usually require longer kneading to create the network.
▪ This possibility of creating networks of individuals with skills and enthusiasm seems to us very much of our times.
▪ Home will create a private network packed in major metropolitan areas.
▪ These included dualling the road, creating a network of underpasses for horse riders, and safety provisions.
▪ In fact, creating a parenting network requires planning and emotional effort.
develop
▪ One of the tasks of the project is to develop informal care networks, community, local neighbourhood networks for these people.
▪ Figure 9. 18 illustrates our methodology for developing a neural network.
▪ The University wishes to develop a network of contacts with all its graduates.
▪ My first career information interview provided three further contacts, so that in one day I developed a network of valuable contacts.
▪ Why don't we develop a resources network among our graduates?
▪ Hitachi has developed a wafer-scale neural network.
▪ Our goal is to develop a neural network that can recognize the numerals 0 through 9.
establish
▪ With little official funding or backing, the team went ahead to establish just such a network.
▪ Yet I was able to establish a network of valuable career contacts.
▪ This would ensure that they would be firmly established within heroin user networks and not peripheral to them.
▪ In this way you may be able to establish another network that could pay off handsomely.
▪ In the long-term, the centre aims to establish a network for the exchange and distribution of news programmes and documentaries.
▪ Cable companies are cooperating to establish fiber networks involving different operators so that they can compete with the telephone companies.
▪ Breeders have established their own intelligence network in a bid to combat the crime.
▪ For many, establishing a network of informal support can help.
operate
▪ Each branch operates a postnatal support network of one-to-one friendship.
▪ AlterNet operates its own network and maintains direct connections to most other component networks of the Internet.
▪ Secondly the lowering of trans-ocean communications tariffs may make global data pipelines nearly as cheap to operate as national networks.
▪ Railway work is governed by complex rules and regulations stemming from the safety and technical requirements of operating the railway network.
▪ It currently receives the federal appropriations for public broadcasting and is prohibited by law from producing programs or operating a network itself.
▪ V., a nonprofit limited liability company, was formed to develop and operate the network.
▪ Orlando, Portland and GreenvilleAsheville fit our broadcasting goal of owning and operating stations with network and geographic diversity.
provide
▪ He provided a comprehensive network of farm buildings connected, it is said, by a telegraph system.
▪ Neural networks can use all the hints you can provide.
▪ These provide a network of public services complementing those provided by local authorities.
▪ Student assemblies, cafeterias, and libraries provided a semi-institutional network within which radical ideas and literature could circulate.
▪ The fiber-to-the-curb architecture provides high-capacity switched digital network services to optical network units serving multiple residences.
▪ We must therefore continue to provide an efficient road network.
run
▪ Traditionally, one powerful computer is used as a dedicated server using all its power and memory to run the network.
▪ Docherty said the companies will continue to compete with each other on telecommunications services they run over the joint network.
▪ These can either run off the public-telephone network, or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses' own in-house telephone systems.
▪ Rabo owns an independent facilities management firm, Facet, which will run the network should it win the bid.
▪ Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
▪ When he ran a small cable network in San Francisco, Hindery refused to carry the sport.
▪ But it does encourage calls to its 24-hour hot line from people running networks based on more sophisticated operating system software.
set
▪ We set up a national network of consumer advice centres: the Government closed them down.
▪ Meanwhile, in California, Pike set up a network of four interlocking, for-profit companies to do the marketing.
▪ They set up a network of agencies to coordinate aid.
▪ Services, have already set up networks in most major metropolitan areas to offer Internet access via the cell phone technology.
▪ Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues.
▪ Petersburg, where Duracell is setting up distribution networks.
▪ The government proposes to set up a network of secondary schools under direct central control.
▪ They talked about maintaining contacts in the exile community, setting up a network in the Castro government.
use
▪ They're in the congregation so they naturally think of using the network.
▪ The maker of switching products used in telephone networks said its fourth-quarter earnings will fall below estimates.
▪ A newsletter is regularly produced including excerpts from the electronic messages received and sent by children using the network.
▪ It took Adi Shamir a year to break a 120-digit key using a network of distributed Sun workstations working part-time.
▪ But the service is only available to those using Orange and One2One networks.
▪ You would not want to use an artificial neural network, for example, to keep your finances.
▪ Material which starts out at regional may also go on to be used on the national networks.
▪ For example, you could use this network to extract knowledge from databases.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peer-to-peer architecture/network/technology etc
the old-boy network
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A network of veins and arteries carries the blood around the body.
▪ A 24-hour strike brought the railway network to a standstill.
▪ Cable News Network shows 24 hours of news.
▪ Each user on the network will have his or her own private line to allow data to flow more smoothly.
▪ Most workplaces have a local network as well as access to the Internet.
▪ the network evening news
▪ the four biggest TV networks
▪ the freeway network
▪ The rankings list the programs and the network they are shown on.
▪ The series is sponsored by Ford and will be shown over the ABC network.
▪ US companies have invested heavily in their telecommunications networks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ One way to achieve this is by means of a logic network as shown in Figure 7.9.
▪ That sport television networks use to deliberately bore football, baseball, basketball and hockey fans.
▪ The core of this international network consists of computers permanently joined through high speed connections.
▪ The good news is that anyone who possesses information and learning skills is likely to find a job, old-boy networks not withstanding.
▪ The shared conference board allows disparate users to simultaneously view and annotate documents and drawings over TCP/IP networks.
▪ These branches cover a good cross section of the branch network in terms of location, size and type of business.
▪ They were essentially square boxes with minimal features that let you catch the news and the network sitcoms.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
computer
▪ It provides every mod con for high-tech tenants: built-in computer networking and high-speed internet access.
▪ It warned of unexpectedly low fourth-quarter earnings because of lagging sales of its computer networking software.
▪ Technology issues showed some strength after a strong profit report from Cisco Systems, the bellwether of the computer networking sector.
▪ Bay Networks said fiscal second-quarter earnings rose because of strong sales of its computer-networking equipment.
▪ Welcome to a day in the life of a computer networking executive.
▪ The company is close-mouthed about plans, but most observers believe wireless computer networking is a likely product to come from Pulse.
▪ Tribe Computer gave key networking equipment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The conference provided some excellent opportunities for networking and she made some useful business contacts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Today its monthly meetings draw 1, 000 artists, designers and programmers to a frenzy of networking and business-card swapping.
▪ When Sheila went into her own business, within weeks of opening her office the networking started.