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collocation

[ kol-uh-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of collocating.
  2. the state or manner of being collocated.
  3. the arrangement, especially of words in a sentence.
  4. Linguistics. a co-occurrence of lexical items, as perform with operation or commit with crime.


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Other yvlog Forms

  • DZl·tDz· DZl·t adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of collocation1

1595–1605; < Latin DZdzپō- (stem of DZdzپō ), equivalent to DZdz ( us ) ( collocate ) + -ō- -ion
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Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.

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It’s a work of journalism that never felt like journalism, a collocation of short quotes, a book that’s both joyful and angry, a book to get lost in.

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Notably, the script used to analyze the texts relied on modified versions of four of the Natural Language Toolkit’s prepackaged modules: the word tokenizer, part of speech tagger, yvlogNetLemmatizer, and collocation finder.

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Meanwhile, in California… Evernote Corporation has been growing its share of the “outboard brain” online collocation and storage market since its launch in 2008.

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Although there was never a law against women serving in ground combat, the “intent of the law” was to prohibit it, so the collocation rules were made.

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