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Definitions of collocate in various dictionaries:
verb - have a strong tendency to occur side by side
verb - group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
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(of words and phrases) to often be used together in a way that sounds correct to people who have spoken the language all their lives, but might not be expected from the meaning |
To place together or in proper order arrange side by side. |
To occur in a collocation. Used of words: Rancid often collocates with butter. |
have a strong tendency to occur side by side |
group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side |
(of a word) be habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance. |
Place side by side or in a particular relation. |
A word that is habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance. |
Collocate might refer to |
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In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, collocation is a sub-type of phraseme. An example of a phraseological collocation, as propounded by Michael Halliday, is the expression strong tea. While the same meaning could be conveyed by the roughly equivalent powerful tea, this expression is considered excessive and awkward by English speakers. Conversely, the corresponding expression in technology, powerful computer is preferred over strong computer. Phraseological collocations should not be confused with idioms, where an idiom's meaning is derived from its convention as a stand-in for something else while collocation is a mere popular composition. * There are about six main types of collocations: adjective+noun, noun+noun (such as collective nouns), verb+noun, adverb+adjective, verbs+prepositional phrase (phrasal verbs), and verb+adverb. * Collocation extraction is a computational techniqu |