What does collocate mean?
Collocate means (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea..
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/ˈkɒləkeɪt/ · verb
(linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea..
to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
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
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.
of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate
Use collocate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Collocate means (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea..
Common synonyms include co-locate, lump, chunk.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
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