(n) the act of positioning close together (or side by side), Syn. apposition, collocation, Example:it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Collocate

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Collocated p. pr. & vb. n. Collocating ] To set or place; to set; to station. [ 1913 Webster ]

To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collocate

a. [ L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See Couch. ] Set; placed. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collocation

n. [ L. collocatio. ] 1. The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called stable collocation. Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also be collocations. [ PJC ]

Miscollocation

n. Wrong collocation. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary EDICT JP-EN Dictionary

コロケーション

[koroke-shon] (n) (1) collocation; (2) co-location

連語

[れんご, rengo] (n) compound word; phrase; collocation

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary DING DE-EN Dictionary

Zusammenstellung { f }; Kollokation { f }

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