collocate — English Dictionary

Verb

1. (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.

2. To arrange or occur side by side.

   Synonyms

   co-locate

3. To set or place or station in the same place as something else.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   co-locate

   Examples

   to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles

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   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

Noun

1. A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.

   Examples

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   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.

Adjective

1. Set; placed.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • Obsolete

   Examples

   of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate

Verb

1. have a strong tendency to occur side by side

   Broader terms

   occur

   Examples

   The words ‘new’ and ‘world’ collocate

2. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

   Synonyms

   lumpchunk

   Broader terms

   group