collocate
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To set or place or station in the same place as something else.Examples: "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"Synonyms: co-locateobsoletetransitive
noun (English)
1. (linguistics) A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.Examples: "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."
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Set; placed.Examples: "of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate"not-comparableobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary