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collocation 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/ˌkäləˈkāSHən/,
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collocations, plural;
  1. The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance
    • - the words have a similar range of collocation
  2. A pair or group of words that are juxtaposed in such a way
    • - “strong coffee” and “heavy drinker” are typical English collocations
  3. The action of placing things side by side or in position
    • - the collocation of the two pieces

  1. a grouping of words in a sentence
  2. juxtaposition: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
  3. (collocate) have a strong tendency to occur side by side; "The words 'new' and 'world' collocate"
  4. (collocate) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
  5. Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation defines a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. The term is often used in the same sense as linguistic government.
  6. Collocation is a procedure used in remote sensing to match measurements from two or more different instruments. ...
  7. The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds. (countable) Such a specific grouping; The statistically significant collocation of particular words in a language; A method of determining coefficients in an expansion so as to nullify the values of an ordinary differential ...
  8. (Collocations) English words contain collocations, giving the meaning of a common phrase that contains the word along with the Japanese translation of this phrase. ...
  9. (COLLOCATE) Sharing of one property by more than one user; especially armed forces recruiting facilities.
  10. (COLLOCATE) When more than one individual or group shares the same property.
  11. (Collocated) Pertaining to a configuration in which equipment resides in the same physical site.
  12. Collocated points are close to each other or at the same location. Multiple axis points cannot share the same location because graph coordinates are therefore impossible to compute, and should be widely separated so computed graph coordinates are most accurate.
  13. The tendency for words to occur regularly with others: sit/chair, house/garage.
  14. An arrangement whereby the facilities of one party (the Collocating Party) are terminated with the equipment necessary to provide interconnection or access to the network elements offered by the second Party. ...
  15. The frequency or tendency some words have to combine with each other. For instance, Algeo notes that the phrases "tall person" and "high mountain" seem to fit together readily without sounding strange. ...
  16. The phenomenon of words/lexical items tending to co-occur in close proximity to one another in spoken/written discourse (i.e. habitual or greater-than-chance co-selection of words). ...
  17. The likelihood that a particular word will occur in the neighborhood of another word. This tendency can be exploited by commercial names. The words spick and span are an example of collocation. We also associate baa with sheep and moo with cow.
  18. The action of setting in place, especially arranging in relation to others.
  19. Group of words associated together as an expression in the lexicon. Our class has decided "in this particular case" is a collocation in McGowan's idiolect.
  20. A collocation in WordNet is a string of two or more words, connected by spaces or hyphens. Examples are: man-eating shark, blue-collar, depend on, line of products. In the database files spaces are represented as underscore (_ ) characters.
  21. A collocation consists of two or more words that are commonly associated in a particular language, such as ‘read about’ or ‘white lies’. A word may take on a specific meaning when collocated with certain other words.
  22. is moving or placing things together, sometimes implying a proper order. On the Internet, this term (often spelled "colocation" or "co-location") is used to mean the provision of space for a customer's telecommunications equipment on the service provider's premises. ...
  23. A competing local phone company can locate its equipment within a local exchange company’s (LEC) central office.
  24. A situation when a second or subsequent wireless provider uses an existing structure to locate a second or subsequent antennae. ...
  25. refers to how words occur together regularly and in a restricted way – e.g. blonde hair, lean meat, etc