I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief/short/slight pause
▪ "Well, that was a surprise," he said after a brief pause.
a high/low/slight fever
▪ The usual symptoms are a pink rash with a slight fever.
a light/slight/faint breeze
▪ The curtains lifted in the light breeze.
a little/faint/slight smile
▪ She gave him an apologetic little smile.
a minor/slight modification (=a small modification)
▪ The document needed a few slight modifications.
a slight advantage (=a small one)
▪ Karpov enjoyed a slight advantage over his opponent.
a slight cold
▪ It’s only a slight cold – I’ll be fine tomorrow.
a slight cough (=one that is not very serious)
▪ He has a slight cough but I don’t think he’s really ill.
a slight edge (also a bit of an edge) (= a small advantage)
▪ Running on the inside lane will give him a slight edge.
a slight exaggeration (=small)
▪ I think that saying the animals are almost extinct is a slight exaggeration.
a slight headache (also a bit of a headachespoken) (= one that is not very serious )
▪ I’d rather stay at home – I’ve got a bit of a headache.
a slight improvement
▪ Sales figures have shown a slight improvement this month.
a slight limp
▪ Young walked with a slight limp.
a slight movement (=small)
▪ His eye caught a slight movement behind the bushes.
a slight pain (=not severe)
▪ I’ve got a slight pain in my side.
a slight/brief/momentary etc hesitation
▪ There was a slight hesitation in Jamie’s voice.
a slight/faint accent
▪ He has a very slight accent.
a slight/faint resemblance (=not strong)
▪ Don't you think she has a slight resemblance to that blonde singer in Abba?
a slight/gentle/wide bend (=that changes direction slightly or gradually)
▪ Ahead of us there was a wide bend in the river.
a slight/mild reaction
▪ A spider’s venom usually causes only a slight reaction.
a slight/minor defect
▪ There are one or two minor defects on the car’s paintwork.
a slight/minor disadvantage
▪ Children who are young in their school year sometimes have a slight disadvantage.
a slight/short delay
▪ There was a slight delay in the departure of the plane.
a slight/small/minor difference
▪ There’s only a slight difference between the male and the female bird.
a small/slight shift
▪ There has been only a slight shift in income distribution.
a small/slight/slim chance
▪ He only has a very small chance of being elected.
▪ There’s a slight chance of some sunshine in the west.
a vague/slight sense of sth (=not very strong)
▪ There was a slight sense of embarrassment.
at a slight/steep angle
▪ The sign leaned over at a slight angle.
at the slightest excuse (=for any reason, however unimportant)
▪ She comes to our house at the slightest excuse.
at the slightest provocation
▪ Julie has a tendency to burst into tears at the slightest provocation.
large/thin/slight etc frame
minor/slight adjustment
▪ It just needs a few minor adjustments.
not the slightest doubt (=no doubt)
▪ There’s not the slightest doubt in my mind about it.
slight build (=fairly thin)
▪ Simpson was of slight build and shy in character.
slight mishap
▪ I had a slight mishap with one of the glasses.
slight/minor (=not serious)
▪ She’s suffering from a slight infection.
slight/small
▪ Doctors have reported a slight increase in the number of deaths caused by the disease.
▪ The temperature increase was quite small.
slight/small/minor
▪ The proposed changes were relatively minor.
small/slight
▪ It’s only a small cut.
technical/slight/last-minute hitch
▪ In spite of some technical hitches, the first program was a success.
the slightest suspicion
▪ Daniel never had the slightest suspicion of how she really felt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
however
▪ Our dignity requires that we struggle in the net, however slight the hope of escape.
▪ Any movement, however slight, could crack the Chevy wide open like an uncooked eggshell.
▪ There are however slight variations, the first being where the independent belongs to a retail buying association.
only
▪ She awoke with her body lazily relaxed, only slight soreness to remind her of what had happened the previous night.
▪ It is only slight hyperbole to say that Roy Disney averted a cultural tragedy.
▪ Since the modifications were only slight, data from the piloting stage were included in the final analysis.
▪ Yet you may have a list chock full of interesting points with only slight degrees of greater importance.
▪ Most tour packages and many resorts are reporting they are either holding the line or having only slight increases in price.
so
▪ I notice you have been fighting, so maybe your errand was not so slight.
▪ At first his weight was so slight that he had almost to force himself downward by holding on to the handrail.
▪ The differences are therefore in the expected direction but so slight as to be unremarkable.
▪ The whole connection is so slight that the legend only appears in tourist-orientated guide books of the twentieth century.
▪ He was fortunate the punishment was so slight.
▪ He pulled her to her feet, marvelling that so slight a creature could have put up such a fight.
▪ The overhead wires are so slight that you have to look hard to see them.
very
▪ Though both had appeared in the press and are very slight pamphlets, they rank as first editions in book form.
▪ Thus, red maple seeds can fly in a very slight breeze, but silver maples need wind.
▪ Often their connection with the place is very slight or even non-existent.
▪ The oral shield is rounded triangular, often with a very slight distal lobe.
▪ There was only a very slight frown on her brow when Fernando went inside to bring out the paella.
▪ The flattening f of Mercury is very slight.
▪ It's like a combination, although it's very slight on the wrist.
▪ Sometimes the difference caused by assimilation is very noticeable, and sometimes it is very slight.
■ NOUN
angle
▪ His wig was now at a slight angle.
▪ Christabel's tombstone leaned over at a slight angle.
▪ Both chairs are placed securely, with the free chair at a slight angle to where the patient is sitting.
▪ She went about with her head at a slight angle and her eyes permanently narrowed, to avoid the smoke.
bit
▪ But to all outward appearance she was, let it be said, the slightest bit slatternly.
▪ I say, without feeling the slightest bit cowardly.
▪ Are we in the slightest bit surprised by this hypocrisy from a member of the government?
▪ Whenever there was the slightest bit of gossip in the office, Wilkinson was bound to hear about it.
▪ Not that it would have done the slightest bit of good.
▪ He is, he will tell you without the slightest bit of embarrassment, in love.
▪ Was he just the slightest bit jealous?
▪ In fact, no one will admit to being the slightest bit nervous about the lift.
bow
▪ He came to his front door to say goodbye, which he did with a handshake and a slight bow.
▪ She made a slight bow and wheeled to the next desk.
▪ They were just three wires joined at the ends, with only the slightest bow to them.
breeze
▪ The curtains were long and gauzy, fluttering in a slight breeze.
▪ A slight breeze rose to cool his scalp, which had been sun-baked, then doused with water until it tingled.
▪ The slightest breeze to carry her love away.
▪ A slight breeze picks up and you see only occasional flashes of distant lightning that still illuminate the whole sky.
▪ It was cool, a slight breeze drifting over her face, calming the heat of her skin.
▪ Thus, red maple seeds can fly in a very slight breeze, but silver maples need wind.
▪ There was a slight breeze that riffled her hair.
▪ All that was left of the original roof was tar-paper strips that lifted in the slightest breeze.
chance
▪ Thers's a a slight chance of some sunshine in the west, but nothing spectacular.
▪ No eighteenth-century peace plan had the slightest chance of being put into practice.
▪ You aren't going anywhere where there's the slightest chance that you could cause more trouble.
▪ Only the first would Niki have the slightest chance of repaying.
▪ I can not ignore even the slightest chance that she may have survived.
change
▪ A slight change of angle and a full wing shape becomes distorted into a thin one.
▪ The manipulated atoms also could be used to detect extremely slight changes in motion.
▪ Embankments can vary considerably in size; many cater for just a slight change in the level of the ground.
▪ Flight control warned air traffic of a slight change.
▪ Sometimes this happens with a fishing style, small improvements, slight changes. but no real leaps forward.
▪ Had not a slight change of wind taken place, the result might have been fatal to most of us.
▪ For me, it was the most teasing of all things, variations on a theme, slight changes.
▪ Although the forms remained basically the same, his past underwent slight changes.
decrease
▪ Even a slight decrease, a sensible diet, will get you the results you want.
degree
▪ I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage.
▪ Yet you may have a list chock full of interesting points with only slight degrees of greater importance.
delay
▪ In the meantime, the slight delay would allow him to run down his quarry.
▪ The good news is that both are worth the slight delay.
▪ Despite the slight delay the audience gave the band a rousing welcome and were rewarded with two superb sets.
▪ There was a slight delay in the departure of her scheduled plane out of Dulles International.
▪ A slight delay as you skirt round it.
▪ Sometimes it is necessary to wait for an incoming aircraft which might cause a slight delay before you proceed to the resort.
difference
▪ Nothing he could say now would make the slightest difference.
▪ Just like your language instructor, they can detect the slight differences between certain speech sounds that adults will insist are identical.
▪ I tried closing my eyes; it made not the slightest difference.
▪ Now those slight differences of electrical potential had disappeared, like the chalk dust at the end of the lesson.
▪ Only the music created slight differences and this not markedly because the composers used the best of commonly recognised traditional musical idioms.
▪ They are all slightly different and all the slight differences cancel each other out.
▪ Not that this would have made the slightest difference to the outcome.
▪ All I could do was repeat the injections, but was it going to make the slightest difference?
doubt
▪ There was now not the slightest doubt that Hsu was decaying and losing her structural integrity.
▪ He began to have slight doubts about going back with Eleanor.
▪ Without the slightest doubt this is a remarkable, compelling exhibition.
▪ Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals.
▪ But after the triumph, I don't have the slightest doubt that women will ensure that their true rights are respected.
▪ Let me assure you, I never had the slightest doubt we would stay in Division Three.
edge
▪ Now the dim light gave Manville a very slight edge, for he was in cover and his adversaries were not.
▪ Budweiser gets the slight edge here over Pepsi for entertainment value.
▪ The slightest edge of concern had entered her voice now.
▪ Men gave a slight edge to Dole, 44 percent to 43 percent.
▪ Psychologically, in fact, they have a slight edge over their indomitable opponents.
▪ Lose both, and they retain a slight edge.
▪ White's quiet opening may still lead to a slight edge for him if Black permits e4.
exaggeration
▪ One might with only slight exaggeration claim that firelight illuminates virtually every positive page in Victorian novels.
figure
▪ On one of the horses was a slight figure, bound and blindfolded.
▪ In a corner of the room was the slight figure of Jay Gould.
▪ Letty knocked and glancing up Emily saw a slight figure with a mass of dark hair following the maid into the room.
▪ Esther's slight figure could be seen coming furtively through the door and into the recess.
▪ A man from a cell ahead of mine, a slight figure, was knocked aside by two more powerful men working together.
▪ The forward screen zoomed in on the slight figure of the target.
hesitation
▪ As an Eric Clapton fan, I recommend this double album without the slightest hesitation.
▪ He succeeded and was left with just a slight hesitation in speech.
▪ With only a very slight hesitation she launched into her part.
▪ He had noticed the slight hesitation over the gender of the letter writer.
hint
▪ The slightest hint of trouble over the weekend brought a massive response from fleets of police cars.
▪ Crisp, without the slightest hint of being greasy, it both crunches and melts in your mouth.
▪ At the slightest hint of sloth, cross them off your list.
▪ The slightest hint of militancy was enough to bar a group from being funded.
▪ She searched his face for just the slightest hint that there might be the chance of some give in his rigidity.
▪ But Gordon answered that one, too, betraying only the slightest hint of impatience.
▪ But that does not breed the slightest hint of complacency as the 31-year-old Ballinascreen clubman prepares for the All Ireland final.
▪ It tasted yeasty, with a slight hint of effervescence, and began almost instantly to produce a slow easing of inhibitions.
idea
▪ I still haven't the slightest idea.
▪ Without such game rules no society would exist; nor would any individual have the slightest idea how to act.
▪ What we went out there for I haven t the slightest idea.
▪ The auditor now has some slight idea of who the allies may be.
▪ An honest answer seems to be that no one has the slightest idea.
▪ No one in the States has the slightest idea how beautiful it is.
▪ You're the first woman I've ever met who had the slightest idea what travelling light means.
▪ I never have the slightest idea what she's thinking.
improvement
▪ The slight improvements in the eighteenth century are important because they mark the beginning of the downward trend.
▪ It attributed the slight improvement in load factor to recent schedule changes and fare sales.
▪ She remained sedated and in a critical condition throughout Tuesday 7 July although she showed some slight improvement.
▪ The record does, however, show a slight improvement over its predecessor.
▪ Once again sales have moved well and terminations actually showing a slight improvement over last year!
▪ Two other patients reported a slight improvement, and one reported no improvement at all.
▪ The only consolation was that this was a slight improvement on 1987 when Dagenham fell 14 percent short of target.
increase
▪ There have, for example, been slight increases in average family size and in the average age at marriage.
▪ Most tour packages and many resorts are reporting they are either holding the line or having only slight increases in price.
▪ Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.
▪ Thiazides may cause a slight increase in magnesium excretion.
▪ This is unlikely to produce anything more than a slight increase in vaginal discharge which has no particular distinguishing features.
▪ Here the increment in individual risk from a slight increase in contact rate is negligible, assuming the individual acts alone.
▪ Both figures constitute a slight increase over the previous year.
▪ Transfection with TAP2 a resulted in a slight increase of HLA-A2 and HLA-B5 expression, which we are investigating at present.
interest
▪ The person I had seen could have not the slightest interest in a beat-up old poet like me.
▪ It was the first time he had ever shown the slightest interest in any type of work.
▪ He'd never shown the slightest interest in any other woman - any decent woman.
▪ You've never displayed the slightest interest in what I do.
▪ I looked round thinking everyone would stare at me, but to my relief no one showed the slightest interest.
▪ She hasn't the slightest interest in Monpazier.
▪ He seemed to have not the slightest interest in what she was saying.
▪ If I were a woman I wouldn't have the slightest interest in it either.
limp
▪ I noticed he had a slight limp.
▪ Noonan walked with a slight limp.
▪ Unfortunately he suffered damage to a knee which left him with a permanent slight limp.
▪ His mind concentrated itself on Tolby's footsteps which were slightly uneven, as if the solicitor had a slight limp.
▪ The only sign of his accident is that he walks with a slight limp.
▪ She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp.
modification
▪ I do however have orders for two more with slight modifications.
▪ A slight modification of the above example will give us an instance of a deduction that is not valid.
▪ A slight modification of the procedure will enable us to add equality constraints.
▪ This constitution survived with only slight modifications until the Municipal Reform Act of 1835.
▪ The geographical distribution of both doctors and hospitals has remained in favour of the upper socio-economic groups with only very slight modifications.
movement
▪ The slightest movement caused them to twang and reverberate through the silent apartment.
▪ Joe says bravely and makes a slight movement towards the door.
▪ It is sensitive to slight movements of the camera, subject or reference strip and will sometimes trigger spurious diagnostics.
▪ Your nerve endings bristle at the slightest movement.
▪ His eyes were glued to the hands of Young Jack, awaiting the slightest movement amongst the dark captain's metaphysical digits.
▪ When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement.
▪ Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar, and the big catamaran lifted smoothly.
▪ She kept as still as possible; every slight movement made her whimper.
pause
▪ Then the slight pause, the half-second of calm and false progress.
problem
▪ There would be some slight problem in distinguishing Jalame glass from that imported to the site.
▪ She had a slight problem, no doctor to conduct the test..
▪ It's only a slight problem I have with names.
▪ He saw that one fire engine got through okay but the second a slight problem in two places.
▪ Speed I've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It's not given me the slightest problem.
▪ One slight problem was that soil built up between the outside tines and the subsoiler legs.
▪ He was already used to being called out by the Sheikhs for the slightest problem.
▪ Hired plant invoices may create a slight problem where the hire period extends across two accounting periods.
rise
▪ In third field go forward to waymarked stile at far end, keeping just right of slight rise.
▪ Would a slight rise in the rate of inflation from the current 2. 5 percent really hurt?
▪ In the lowest-lying places, which are flooded at any slight rise in the water level, no trees grow.
▪ It was huge, red-roofed and white-walled, the main house on a slight rise inside the high-walled perimeter.
▪ This means a slight rise in the wages account which is no different than working overtime for cleaning and maintenance of machinery.
▪ Speciality Chemicals division saw a slight rise in operating profit from £223m in 1990 to £225m.
▪ Despite a slight rise in his approval rating during the campaign, he remains a liability.
sign
▪ Perhaps it was to exploit this slight sign of thaw that Eisenhower immediately afterwards invited Khrushchev to the United States.
▪ I looked around for the slightest sign of life.
▪ They had always found buccaneering terribly alarming, and felt seasick at the slightest sign of bad weather.
▪ And investors who pumped up software stocks in 1995 are now running from the slightest sign of risk.
▪ There was not the slightest sign in his behaviour of any strict Methodist upbringing.
▪ They show not the slightest sign of that one essential attribute we think animal life should have: movement.
▪ Indeed, if we leave only the slightest sign of our passing we should be satisfied.
smile
▪ He leaned back in the chair, a slight smile playing on his lips.
▪ A slight smile curved her mouth, relaxing the rigidity of her body.
▪ She looks at him with a slight smile.
▪ He gives her an angry look, shakes his head, then lets his mouth loosen into a slight smile.
▪ A slight smile now, and a walk that was both casual and wary; cat-like.
▪ Usually his parishioners listened to his lectures with a slight smile, an engaged expression.
▪ Miss Jarman stood back, a slight smile on her raddled face.
▪ Gomez's slight smile was that of a man who believed that politeness demanded he act a little embarrassed at doing his job.
variation
▪ These variations may be a result of slight variations in the amount of template cDNA.
▪ There was never the slightest variation.
▪ It is employed by a wide range of species, with slight variations.
▪ They show slight variations, for example in the woodcut decorations.
▪ A slight variation in this household was that one social worker stayed behind.
▪ Special Scheme Home policies may have slight variations in cover and should be handled accordingly.
▪ There are however slight variations, the first being where the independent belongs to a retail buying association.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a slight headache
▪ a small, slight child with delicate-looking features
▪ He was slight and frail, even as a young man.
▪ He was a good friend - always available to help at the slightest sign of need.
▪ Officials reported a slight increase in inflation.
▪ The doctor says there has been a slight improvement in her condition.
▪ There has been a slight change of plan.
▪ Tom? I haven't the slightest idea where he is.
▪ US foreign policy at the time hadn't made the slightest difference in the situation.
▪ Yoshida is a slight, quiet man with a grey beard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But there was only a slight, impatient nodding.
▪ Do not spend your life taking over-the-counter medication for the slightest ache or pain.
▪ Dove stood by, ready to bolt for the lifeboat at the slightest glance from Jenkins.
▪ He felt a slight tickling as his old skin blistered.
▪ In those turbulent times that produce skips, however, a slight degradation will be close to unnoticeable.
▪ The only slight justification for Batty going I can see, I realised last night.
▪ Throat and neck sensitive to the slightest touch.
▪ To dread the slightest sneeze or cough that might herald the onset of polio or tuberculosis.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
▪ This disillusion causes one to feel neglected, slighted, rejected, etc.
▪ We feel we are being slighted, or overlooked, or not given our due, etc.
▪ Polly didn't know whether to feel relieved or slighted.
▪ By singling out the black population for a special history month makes all other races feel slighted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was never our intention to slight minority communities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But does the academic agenda of the classroom get slighted in all this?
▪ He had left things to others too long, and his sovereignty was in danger of being slighted.
▪ I am used to being ignored and slighted, but mark this well!
▪ I have never slighted techniques in my teaching, writing, and consulting.
▪ Polly didn't know whether to feel relieved or slighted.
▪ This disillusion causes one to feel neglected, slighted, rejected, etc.
▪ Through metaphor Thoreau renders the self and nature in total interrelationship without slighting either half of the duality.
▪ We feel we are being slighted, or overlooked, or not given our due, etc.