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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -collocat-, *collocat*
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WordNet (3.0)
collocate(v) have a strong tendency to occur side by side, Example: The words 'new' and 'world' collocate
collocate(v) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side, Syn. lump, chunk
collocate with(v) go or occur together, Syn. construe with, co-occur with, cooccur with, go with, Example: The word 'hot' tends to cooccur with 'cold'
collocation(n) a grouping of words in a sentence

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

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

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 ]

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 ]

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