Definitions for collocate
ˈkɒl əˌkeɪtcol·lo·cate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. collocateverb

   have a strong tendency to occur side by side

   "The words 'new' and 'world' collocate"

2. collocate, lump, chunkverb

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. collocatenoun

   A component word of a collocation.

2. collocateverb

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

   To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. uE000303127uE001 E. Hall.

3. collocateverb

   To set or place; to station.

   To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. uE000303127uE001 E. Hall.

4. collocateverb

   To arrange or occur side by side.

5. Etymology: From collocat-, ppl. stem of colloco.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To COLLOCATEverb

   To place; to station.

   Etymology: colloco, Latin.

   If you desire to superinduce any virtue upon a person, take the creature in which that virtue is most eminent: of that creature take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

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1. collocate

   In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up. This contrasts with an idiom, where the meaning of the whole cannot be inferred from its parts, and may be completely unrelated. An example of a phraseological collocation is the expression strong tea. While the same meaning could be conveyed by the roughly equivalent powerful tea, this adjective does not modify tea frequently enough for English speakers to become accustomed to its co-occurrence and regard it as idiomatic or unmarked. (By way of counterexample, powerful is idiomatically preferred to strong when modifying a computer or a car.) There are about six main types of collocations: adjective + noun, noun + noun (such as collective nouns), verb + noun, adverb + adjective, verbs + prepositional phrase (phrasal verbs), and verb + adverb. Collocation extraction is a computational technique that finds collocations in a document or corpus, using various computational linguistics elements resembling data mining.

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1. collocate

   A collocate is a word or phrase that is often used together with another word or phrase, in a way that sounds correct to native speakers of the language. The act of collocate refers to the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance. For example, the verbs “make” and “do” collocate with several nouns; we say “make a decision” or “do homework”.

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1. Collocateadjective

   set; placed

2. Collocateverb

   to set or place; to set; to station

3. Etymology: [L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See Couch.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Collocate

   kol′ō-kāt, v.t. to place together: to set: to arrange.—n. Collocā′tion, act of collocating: disposition in place: arrangement. [L. collocāre, -ātum, col, together, locāre, to place.]

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How to pronounce collocate?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of collocate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of collocate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=collocate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Collocate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=collocate
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collocate
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collocate
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=collocate