adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an organic compound (=containing carbon)
▪ the organic compounds of which living things are made
an organic farm (=a farm where artificial chemicals are not used)
▪ Organic farms can be as productive as industrial farming.
an organic substance (=from a living thing)
▪ Despite being an organic substance, ivory is remarkably durable.
organic chemicals (=containing natural substances including carbon)
▪ Oil and coal are known as organic chemicals.
organic chemistry
organic produce (=produced without artificial chemicals)
▪ There is increased demand for organic produce.
organic waste (=waste from plants, fruits, and vegetables)
▪ Organic waste can be composted to make garden fertilizer.
organic (=grown without using chemicals)
▪ Most supermarkets sell organic fruit and vegetables.
organic/intensive farming
organic/plant material
▪ Animals depend on plant material for food.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Postmodernism points to a more organic, less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity.
▪ A more organic metaphor is needed to describe the process of transition.
▪ Unlike the two previous species, this one prefers more organic content in its substratum.
▪ Science is far more organic than this.
■ NOUN
acid
▪ They showed that three of the five patients had excessive faecal excretion of carbohydrate and organic acids.
▪ Accordingly, organic acids are thought to accumulate.
▪ Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
▪ Those used range from mild organic acids such as citric acid to phosphoric acid highly reactive sulphuric and hydrochloric acids.
being
▪ On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure.
▪ On these principles, I believe, the nature of the affinities of all organic beings may be explained.
▪ A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase.
brain
▪ This index distinguishes five different levels of organic brain syndrome ranging from severe to subclinical.
▪ Patients who have organic brain disease are more likely to have an abnormality than those who do not.
carbon
▪ Total organic carbon is made up of non-hazardous materials.
▪ Oil, gas, and coal, composed of organic carbon compounds, are found as economic deposits in sedimentary rocks.
chemical
▪ However, there is little sign that it will ever produce compounds on the scale required by the heavy organic chemicals industry.
▪ One of the original bugs had undergone a mutation that caused it to excrete acetate, an organic chemical.
▪ In fact there was remarkably little evidence for standard organic chemicals that do not need to be formed biologically.
▪ It shows the close association that can exist between organic chemical synthesis and clay surfaces.
▪ It used to be the basis of the whole heavy organic chemical industry, and might be again.
▪ The theory is that industrial alcohol can desensitize some one to all synthetic organic chemicals, because it is derived from oil.
▪ However, human urine would contain hormones that are similar to organic chemicals that sharks use to locate their prey.
▪ Our organic chemicals businesses have survived the recession very well by designing new products and identifying new applications.
chemist
▪ Biotransformations for organic chemists will take place on 7-9 July 1992 at University of Exeter.
▪ One of the greatest organic chemists in the world and as good as any of the present Harvard bunch.
chemistry
▪ The company is involved in a wide range of organic chemistry.
▪ Louise and Amelia were also both enrolled in an inorganic chemistry course at Columbia and an organic chemistry course at Barnard.
▪ In organic chemistry it is thus more convenient to describe carbon in terms of its valency than its oxidation numbers.
▪ Red has four finals in four days: physics, chemistry, organic chemistry and calculus.
▪ It is awarded biennially for excellence in physical organic chemistry embracing the relationship between structure and reactivity.
▪ The book thus seeks to explain the application of these colorants in terms of their organic chemistry.
▪ It is made annually for eminence in organic chemistry and includes a monetary prize of £2000.
▪ Cimetidine was the first H2 blocker to reach the clinic, which was a triumph for synthetic organic chemistry.
composition
▪ There is the same organic composition of capital in both departments of production.
▪ There are no changes in technology or productivity of labour, hence no change in the organic composition of capital.
▪ She argued that Marx's schema of reproduction became unbalanced if one assumed such an increase in the organic composition of capital.
▪ Marx, in his schemas, assumed an organic composition of capital of or, and also that Dept.
▪ Now, leaving aside the case where there were different organic compositions of capital, we can see what happens.
▪ Moreover, with an unchanged organic composition of capital we find:.
compound
▪ Activated carbon has the ability to remove a wide variety of organic compounds from water and wastewater, even in trace quantities.
▪ Paints traditionally were made with volatile organic compounds, which can pollute indoor and outdoor air.
▪ Amines are a series of organic compounds related to ammonia.
▪ Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds, but you still need to be careful.
▪ This fact can be used to determine the identity of unknown organic compounds by the method of mixed melting points.
▪ Having observed organic compounds in meteorites, these researchers believe the seeds of life may have been carried to earth preformed.
▪ To summarize, the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes.
▪ Chemists know that oxygen-free climates like this tend to foster the spontaneous synthesis of organic compounds.
farm
▪ The prime culprit is organic farm waste, such as cattle slurry and silage, and even milk.
▪ For a crash course on the subject, consider subscribing to an organic farm with a delivery service in your area.
▪ Next week a new residential block opens at its organic farm, Kilcranny House, just outside Coleraine.
▪ They say I must come and see them on their new organic farm - more land, less house, says Johnson.
▪ A well-run organic farm could hold many times that number.
▪ Mr Wilson says organic farms reverse many modern agricultural trends.
▪ By exterminating farm animals, the option of small organic farms is eroded.
▪ Loans to organic farms and businesses tripled and the number of borrowers rose by more than 50 per cent each year.
farmer
▪ And they also believe that would-be organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives.
▪ There are around 1,100 organic farmers.
▪ Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits.
▪ He's an organic farmer so he doesn't use any of the chemicals used on conventional farms.
▪ The chances of this working are close to zero, leaving organic farmers without their biological weapon of last resort.
▪ More than 30 organic farmers have offered to have their plots surveyed.
▪ There are over 1,000 organic farmers operating in Britain at the moment.
▪ It's up to the organic farmers to sort out the inconsistent supply complaint.
farming
▪ The foundation will also research and develop organic farming techniques.
▪ Some farmers are likely to achieve this by converting to organic farming.
▪ In creating one she has inadvertently made a move towards alternative methods of selling that could have great significance for organic farming.
▪ It is now open to the public as a prize example of how well organic farming can function.
▪ These groups believe that both the Set Aside and Beef Extensification schemes could go one step further and encourage organic farming.
▪ But as organic farming burgeons, so greater controls on the use of the word are to be introduced.
▪ The most popular method or organic farming is using a multi-culture system in which crops are grown and livestock reared.
food
▪ The organic food most commonly found in a delicatessen is cheese.
▪ The children ate organic foods from health food stores and from the garden at their home.
▪ April 1992: the first wholesale organic food market was opened in London.
▪ The secret of the remarkable production by plants of both oxygen and organic food substances is of course photosynthesis.
▪ Two recent surveys clearly show that many shoppers are willing to pay more for organic food.
growth
▪ It is claimed to be equally efficient for removing stains and organic growth from bricks, concrete and stone.
▪ This was partly through acquisitions, but organic growth was a more-than-healthy 73 per cent.
▪ Maud attributes some 15% of this increase to organic growth, with acquisitions providing the balance.
▪ Expansion by organic growth is also important, developing existing business areas, evaluating market knowledge and demonstrating confidence in the products.
▪ Healthy organic growth is proportionate, with each area and function developing in relation to the other.
▪ This is a strategy of organic growth.
▪ Evolution by natural selection is' the direct negation of organic growth.
life
▪ Could shock-waves have brought about organic life?
▪ Undistracted by the lusts and passions of organic life, he had pursued that goal with absolute single-mindedness of purpose.
▪ The place is full of the aroma of Spot-Knee, the ram lamb who recently copped it after a blissful organic life.
▪ Competition and struggle exist, as parts of the mechanism by which organic life evolves to new and superior forms.
▪ As each culture neared the end of its organic life cycle the creative stage was finished and the atrophying civilization stage began.
material
▪ They also, astonishingly, contain abundant organic material.
▪ Metal refracts it while organic material absorbs it. 3.
▪ Uneaten food and other dead organic materials left in the tank are the worst offenders in pollution of the water.
▪ An independent chronology for these reconstructions is essential and this is provided by radiocarbon-dating of organic material preserved in the sediments.
▪ Muck is formed by the decaying of saw grass and other organic material over thousands of years.
▪ They are separated by a thin layer of a very complex organic material.
▪ The corals feed passively on bits of organic material suspended in the water.
matter
▪ Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.
▪ Many layers of decaying organic matter built up in Pennsylvania during the Cretaceous, and now it is all coal.
▪ Properly understood and managed, strong clays will structure themselves, and can nourish plants with relatively little organic matter present.
▪ The organic matter is extremely old and quite dissimilar to biological material.
▪ It will grow quite well in aquarium gravel with very little organic matter.
▪ Researchers have seen their kind before in sewers and other places where organic matter is highly concentrated.
▪ Cultivation: A tank bottom consisting of good organic matter such as leaf-mould with sand is most suitable.
▪ Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter.
milk
▪ In 1996, organic milk sales totaled $ 30 million.
▪ We compromise on salted Straus Family butter, a spunky, high fat, local butter made from organic milk.
molecule
▪ Chemists now know how to make most organic molecules in the laboratory, but the name has stuck.
▪ One idea that has been suggested is that the precursors of life - complex organic molecules - arrived here from outer space.
▪ Tannins, another kind of organic molecule, are used in the oil industry to make muds easier to drill.
▪ When this happened, say Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, the organic molecules within the comets were spewed out over the land.
▪ We know, too, that meteorites often do contain complex organic molecules.
▪ Geologists believe that oil and coal are composed of organic molecules because they themselves are derived from living things.
▪ None of these organic molecules shows evidence of originating from living matter.
▪ But although organic molecules are the essential components of modern living things, they can not in isolation be considered living.
produce
▪ If you can only afford to buy a certain amount of organic produce, potatoes would be a good choice.
▪ Everything depends upon the on-going premium for organic produce.
▪ The trouble is, organic produce is not cheap.
▪ Retailers are constantly unable to meet demand for organic produce and import around 60 percent from abroad.
▪ He also recognised a growing market for organic produce.
▪ The report anticipates sales of organic produce to rise from last year's £900 million to £2.7 billion by 1995.
▪ Comfortable restaurant with an imaginative menu using organic produce.
▪ We use much of our own organic produce and can cater for most diets.
product
▪ In spite of this, organic products still account for less than 1 % of produce sold.
▪ As a producer and processor of organic products, Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand.
▪ Society is the natural, organic product of slow historical growth. 3.
relationship
▪ The best model for organic relationships was a branching tree, not a linear scale.
▪ It was an organic relationship which even anti-democrats like Aristotle endorsed.
▪ Second, do the new products have some organic relationship with their current stock-in-trade?
▪ This was traditionally expressed in terms of some organic relationship between an individual and his community.
remains
▪ Copper can favor the preservation of organic remains, perhaps by preventing the activity of destructive micro-organisms.
▪ Climate plays an important role too in the preservation of organic remains.
▪ But there are no organic remains of any kind.
▪ All over the world, rocks of this antiquity were carefully searched for organic remains.
solvent
▪ The nitric acid solution is then mixed with an organic solvent and the uranium and plutonium are separated from the waste products.
▪ Similarly, the reference to reactions in organic solvents merited further discussion.
▪ The Gyrovap can cope with 240 samples at a time and is appropriate for water as well as organic solvents.
▪ Second, there is growing environmental pressure, particularly on organic solvents.
structure
▪ Burns and Stalker found that organic structures were better able to respond to change than mechanistic ones.
▪ In Piaget's system the behavioural components are functional forms of organic structure.
substance
▪ Thus, falling into the technocrats' natural sin, it mistook administrative device for organic substance.
▪ They are producers, the only organisms able to develop organic substances from inorganic mineral elements and their compounds.
▪ QACs are badly affected by hard water and are progressively inactivated by dirt and other organic substances.
▪ All varieties of this species withstand hard water as well as water with surplus or organic substances.
▪ Most interesting organic substances are non-conducting, and biologists like to put their samples on insulating glass slides.
▪ First its value was enhanced because, despite being an organic substance, ivory is remarkably durable.
synthesis
▪ There was one fascinating lecture on chirality and organic synthesis including the design of Salbutamol, a drug used to treat asthma.
▪ Solution or solid phase synthesis is welcomed, as are combinatorial approaches to organic synthesis.
▪ Chromatography is particularly useful in organic synthesis in separating and recovering the components of a mixture.
▪ This is used to separate the products of an organic synthesis from water.
▪ In other respects the book has changed little and there is no attempt to deal with organic synthesis in its own right.
▪ It also needs long periods of ecological stability during which evolutionary epochs can bring about the necessary organic synthesis.
▪ Was there a natural organic synthesis?
unity
▪ The principle of organic unities is wielded as yet another weapon against hedonism.
▪ There is his basic scheme of an organic unity in life, a principle that is extended to human thought.
▪ Moore grants that all very great goods are organic unities which have pleasure as a part.
▪ It is an organic unity with a multiplicity of parts.
▪ Until such questions are satisfactorily answered, evaluation of the principle of organic unities remains problematic.
▪ Post-structuralist critics will deny that literature possesses the organic unity to which the New Critics attached so much weight.
▪ From this it would follow that the principle of organic unities has no clear meaning.
▪ Where it is different, Moore calls the whole in question an organic unity.
waste
▪ A plastic dustbin with breeding colony on to which organic waste is showered.
▪ That treatment system, which only removes organic waste, costs $ 41, 000 annually to operate and maintain.
▪ Producing methane gas from landfill sites, sewage works and organic wastes is another extremely practical use of resources.
▪ The lagoons would be lined and filled with organic waste, after recyclable materials had been separated.
▪ Food, wood, the organic wastes of animals and plants are all forms of biomass.
whole
▪ This magnificent vision of church and society united as an organic whole was, however, doomed to disintegrate.
▪ Members of these groups, which are linked together in an organic whole, work cooperatively to maintain the social order.
▪ According to ancient ideas, the balance of yin and yang forces comprise an organic whole.
▪ The Universe is one organic whole, no matter how diverse and widely differing its manifold aspects may seem to be.
▪ The reasons Moore gives for thinking that there can not be organic wholes are not very compelling.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
waste/solid/organic/vegetable etc matter
▪ After all, it eventually produces waste matter.
▪ Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.
▪ It tells you just about how much organic matter is present.
▪ It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.
▪ Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.
▪ The quantity needed may, however, vary according to the quantity of organic matter in the raw water.
▪ Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter.
▪ You can improve your soil by adding organic matter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ organic dyes
▪ Organic fruit is generally more expensive.
▪ organic material such as leaves, bark, and grass
▪ Clark's proposals see the tax and welfare systems as a single organic whole.
▪ For this recipe, use a free-range, organic chicken.
▪ Most supermarkets now sell organic produce.
▪ Nowadays I only buy meat that is organic.
▪ Several farmers in the county have moved to organic farming recently.
▪ There is an organic link in each song between the words and music
▪ There was another big increase last year in the demand for organic vegetables.
▪ They are demanding more government support for organic farmers.
▪ Two studies suggest a possible organic explanation for the disease.
▪ Worried by repeated food scares, more and more people are buying organic products.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A more organic metaphor is needed to describe the process of transition.
▪ Imagine an entire city of Gaudi buildings, a human-made forest of planted homes and organic churches.
▪ It is an organic view of the organization.
▪ Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds, but you still need to be careful.
▪ Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
▪ This magnificent vision of church and society united as an organic whole was, however, doomed to disintegrate.