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COLLOCATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of positioning close together (or side by side)
Example:
it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
Synonyms:
apposition; collocation; juxtaposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("collocation" is a kind of...):
emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collocation"):
tessellation (the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern)
Derivation:
collocate (group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A grouping of words in a sentence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("collocation" is a kind of...):
language unit; linguistic unit (one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed)
