The noun "rain" doesn't collocate with the adjective "busy."
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Collocate
//ˈkɒləkeɪt//
Synonyms for "collocate" (76 found)
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3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
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6 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- намирам се един до друг verb (occur side by side)
- нареждам verb (arrange side by side)
- поставям едно до друго verb (arrange side by side)
Dutch
4 entries- bijeenstaan verb (occur side by side)
- bijeenzetten verb (arrange side by side)
- samenstaan verb (occur side by side)
- samenzetten verb (arrange side by side)
Finnish
3 entries- esiintyä rinnakkain verb (occur side by side)
- kollokoida verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
- laittaa rinnakkain verb (arrange side by side)
Georgian
2 entries- შეესიტყვება verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
- შესიტყვება verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
German
4 entries- angliedern verb (arrange side by side)
- kombinieren verb (arrange side by side)
- unterbringen verb (arrange side by side)
- verbinden verb (arrange side by side)
Hindi
2 entries- संस्थिति करना verb (arrange side by side)
- सहसंबंध करना verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
Hungarian
2 entries- (gyakran) együtt fordul elő verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
- kollokál verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
Russian
1 entries- сочета́ться verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
Spanish
3 entries- coaparatar verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
- coaparecer verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
- coaparir verb (linguistics: to be often used together)
Welsh
1 entries- trefnu verb (arrange side by side)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
Source: wiktionary
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
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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