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单词 collocate
释义

collocate

noun
/ˈkɒləkət/
/ˈkɑːləkət/
(linguistics)
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  1. a word that is often used with another word in a language
    • ‘Bitter’ and ‘tears’ are collocates.

collocate

verb
/ˈkɒləkeɪt/
/ˈkɑːləkeɪt/
[intransitive] (linguistics)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they collocate
/ˈkɒləkeɪt/
/ˈkɑːləkeɪt/
he / she / it collocates
/ˈkɒləkeɪts/
/ˈkɑːləkeɪts/
past simple collocated
/ˈkɒləkeɪtɪd/
/ˈkɑːləkeɪtɪd/
past participle collocated
/ˈkɒləkeɪtɪd/
/ˈkɑːləkeɪtɪd/
-ing form collocating
/ˈkɒləkeɪtɪŋ/
/ˈkɑːləkeɪtɪŋ/
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  1. collocate (with something) (of words) to be often used together in a language
    • ‘Bitter’ collocates with ‘tears’ but ‘sour’ does not.
    • ‘Bitter’ and ‘tears’ collocate.
    Word Originearly 16th cent. meaning to place things side by side in a particular relation: from Latin collocat- ‘placed together’, from the verb collocare, from col- ‘together’ + locare ‘to place’. The current sense dates from the 1950s.
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