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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
collocate en · ADJ
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Set; placed.
of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “X. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
collocate en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɒləkət/ (Boston, Canada, Maine)
- /ˈkɒləkət/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɑləkət/ (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
- /ˈkɔləkət/ (Australia)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
Meanings
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A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource. Thus, we took an extra step not present in previously developed academic wordlists and created lists of each word's discipline-specific collocates.
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
Forms
collocate en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɑləkeɪt/ (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɔləkæɪt/ (Australia)
- /ˈkɒləkeɪt/ (Boston, Canada, Maine)
- /ˈkɒləkeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
Meanings
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(said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
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To arrange or occur side by side.
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(obsolete, transitive) To set or place or station in the same place as something else.
to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke:that S. Peter will have transferred from his episcopate of Antioch to Rome, and in Rome the Church with the episcopate, the primacy likewise itself, and himself the rock of faith and the Church to have been constituted and collocated
1600s, Cornelius a Lapide, Commentaries in Sacred Scripture,Tomus IX, p.35:
Forms
Deriveds
collocatable · uncollocated · collocability
Synonyms
co-locate · co-locate
Translations (28)
hu (gyakran) együtt fordul elő (linguistics: to be often used together) · hi सहसंबंध करना (linguistics: to be often used together) · hu kollokál (linguistics: to be often used together) · fi kollokoida (linguistics: to be often used together) · es coaparecer (linguistics: to be often used together) · de unterbringen (arrange side by side) · bg намирам се един до друг (occur side by side) · bg нареждам (arrange side by side) · nl samenzetten (arrange side by side) · fi laittaa rinnakkain (arrange side by side) · nl bijeenzetten (arrange side by side) · de vergesellschaften (arrange side by side) · fi esiintyä rinnakkain (occur side by side) · cy trefnu (arrange side by side) · de zusammenstellen (arrange side by side) · de kombinieren (arrange side by side) · es coaparatar (linguistics: to be often used together) · hi संस्थिति करना (arrange side by side) · ru сочета́ться (linguistics: to be often used together) · de verbinden (arrange side by side) · nl bijeenstaan (occur side by side) · de angliedern (arrange side by side) · de zusammentragen (arrange side by side) · bg поставям едно до друго (arrange side by side) · nl samenstaan (occur side by side) · ka შეესიტყვება (linguistics: to be often used together) · ka შესიტყვება (linguistics: to be often used together) · es coaparir (linguistics: to be often used together)