Lack of prenatal care correlates strongly with premature birth.correlate1 verbcorrelate2 noun
correlatecor‧rel‧ate1 /ˈkɒrəleɪt $ ˈkɔː-, ˈkɑː-/ ●○○ verb [intransitive, transitive] 
VERB TABLE
correlate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | they | correlate |
| it | correlates | |
| Past | it, they | correlated |
| Present perfect | they | have correlated |
| it | has correlated | |
| Past perfect | it, they | had correlated |
| Future | it, they | will correlate |
| Future perfect | it, they | will have correlated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | they | are correlating |
| it | is correlating | |
| Past | they | were correlating |
| it | was correlating | |
| Present perfect | they | have been correlating |
| it | has been correlating | |
| Past perfect | it, they | had been correlating |
| Future | it, they | will be correlating |
| Future perfect | it, they | will have been correlating |
EXAMPLES FROM THE 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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Lack of prenatal care correlates strongly with premature birth.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
if two or more facts, ideas etc correlate or if you correlate them, they are closely connected to each other or one causes the othercorrelate with Lack of prenatal care correlates strongly with premature birth.· Electricity sales are closely correlated to economic growth.· In our studies pepsin output correlated closely with acid output.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· Surface hydrophobicity has been shown to be correlated with adherence in E coli associated with gastroenteritis and pyelonephritis.
Poverty and poor housing correlate with a shorter life expectancy.correlate strongly/significantly/closely Lack of prenatal care correlates strongly with premature birth.correlate1 verbcorrelate2 noun
correlatecor‧re‧late2 /ˈkɒrələt $ ˈkɔː-, ˈkɑː-/ noun [countable] either of two things that correlate with each other