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noun

Collocation n.

The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. "The choice and collocation of words."

(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 be collocations.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collocation" Quotes from Famous Books

... humanity can confidently repose—who alone can give to the trembling arch of human speculation that keystone which it demands. The idea of God, in fact, is not a thing that individual reason has first to strike out, so to speak, by the collision or combination of ideas, the collocation of proofs, and the concatenation of arguments. It is a living growth rather of our whole nature, a primary instinct of all moral beings, a necessary postulate of healthy humanity, which is given and received as our life and our breath is, and admits not of being reasoned into any soul that has ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various

... The collocation of these two passages may be taken, then, as representing the two phases of the Divine Manifestation, the obscurity which must ever be associated with all our finite knowledge of God, and the clear sunlight in which blazes all that we ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... perforating Scotland to the Northern Sea with this unparalleled and splendid road, constructed at first for a military purpose. I heard a man repeat a couplet, probably of unwritten poetry, in popular vogue among the Highlands, and which has quite an Irish collocation of ideas. It is spoken thus, as ...

— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's • Elihu Burritt

Words linked to "Collocation" : position, placement, tessellation, juxtaposition, locating, language unit, linguistic unit, positioning, emplacement, collocate