Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of collocating or the state of being collocated.
- n. An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of collocating or placing together; disposal in a certain order with something else; an arranging.
- n. The state of being placed or ordered along with something else; the manner in which a thing is placed with regard to something else; disposition; arrangement; connection: as, in this collocation the sense of the word is clear.
- n. In civil law, the allocation among creditors of the proceeds of a judicial sale, in satisfaction of their claims; also, the schedule prepared by the court showing the amount due to each.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
- n. countable Such a specific grouping.
- n. linguistics, translation studies The statistically significant collocation of particular words in a language.
- n. mathematics A method of determining coefficients in an expansion so as to nullify the values of an ordinary differential equation at prescribed points.
- n. computing A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
- n. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called
stable collocation . Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also becollocations .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a grouping of words in a sentence
- n. the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
Etymologies
- 1605. From Latin collocātiōnem < collocāre. Compare French collocation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I tend to think that seeing and characterising them as collocation is the most useful way, a pragmatic view perhaps encouraged by the lexical approach.”
“So also in 2Co 2: 15, 16. us which are saved -- In the Greek the collocation is more modest, "to them that are being saved (that are in the way of salvation) as," that is, to which class we belong. power of God -- which includes in it that it is the wisdom of God "(1Co”
“This is no case of mixing in the sense of considerable portions alternating; that would be described as collocation; no; the incoming entity goes through the other to the very minutest point — an impossibility, of course; the less becoming equal to the greater; still, all is traversed throughout and divided throughout.”
“Be sure to inquire about value added services such as collocation space and terrestrial connectivity.”
“Hence, when sufficient energy to account for any effect cannot be found in the inciting power, or manifestly active condition, we must look for it in the collocation which is often supposed to be passive.”
“In the way water is one part oxygen and two parts hydrogen and a property of "wetness" emerges, it is imagined that objective moral obligations emerge from a similar kind of collocation of natural properties.”
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“Hereâs the biggest problem, they donât understand collocation.”
“The FBI just raided another Dallas collocation facility, same 5: AM raid, same special agent, and apparently a related “cause”.”
“The collocation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the swearing in of the country's first black president has occasioned much discourse on the state of race relations in the U.S., most of it somehow centered around whether we're in a "post-racial" society or not.”
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