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Collocate

//ˈkɒləkeɪt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Set; placed. not-comparable, obsolete

    "of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate"

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Verb
  1. 1
    (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
  2. 2
    group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side wordnet
  3. 3
    To arrange or occur side by side.
  4. 4
    have a strong tendency to occur side by side wordnet
  5. 5
    To set or place or station in the same place as something else. obsolete, transitive

    "to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.

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