Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To place together or in proper order; arrange side by side.
- v. To occur in a collocation. Used of words: Rancid often collocates with butter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To set or place together.
- In civil law, to allocate or allot (the proceeds of a judicial sale) among creditors, in satisfaction of their claims.
- Set or placed together.
Wiktionary
- v. linguistics, translation studies (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
- v. rare To arrange or occur side by side.
- v. obsolete, transitive To set or place; to station.
- n. linguistics A component word of a collocation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Set; placed.
- v. To set or place; to set; to station.
WordNet 3.0
- v. have a strong tendency to occur side by side
- v. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
Etymologies
- From Latin collocāt-, ppl. stem of collocō. (Wiktionary)
- Latin collocāre, collocāt- : com-, com- + locāre, to place; see locate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Often the clandestine decision to "collocate" a shiny new school in a hell-hole building is the first step toward closing a neighboring school.”
The Huffington Post: Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team
“Note how often they collocate with verbs like claim, deny, suggest, suspect, as well as with modals like may.”
“To be fair to Yule, he also includes dancing, swimming and skiing in his list of verbs that collocate with like, but I agree that with “I like dancing/swimming/skiing” there is a stronger implication that I am the performer.”
“That sophisticated computers select the best words and collocate them in the best order.”
“Also, I hope to use this blog to collocate some of the important papers, articles, websites, etc. that deal with the future of cataloging and metadata”
“Biscuits and fish are often treated as identical, and so collocate awkwardly with many.”
“Now that Marty has made the decision that he will write a simple Perl script to pull collocates out of data for me I need to give him a more precise specification of a collocate.”
“Carmen Dayrell wrote a paper on “A quantitative approach to compare collocation patterns in translated and non-translated texts” which contains a detailed section on how to decide what a collocate is.”
“Then we need to decide how we will define a collocate.”
“And it also demonstrates how "such war-zone pragmatism is at odds with Army rules intended to bar women from units that engage in direct combat or collocate with combat forces.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘collocate’.
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 39 more...
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howtoflyhome's list
tacenda, ubiquarian, codify, velleity, psithurism, susurration, palaver, haplology, allophony, austere, popinjay, redolent and 11 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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words of collect
A Heidegger Collection - a log of logues
leech, lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson, coil, collect, diligent, elect and 123 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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English
fastidious, flummoxed, fungible, galvanizing, graviats, hafvalla, hyperborean, idiolect, idiomatic, ignominious, immolated, impecunious and 398 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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interesting words
these are the interesting words i've found.
stringent, collocate, ugging, kith, ataractic, torqued, iconoclasm, re-win, rewin, ponderosity, clerkless, fenerate
Tweets
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