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  2. Collocation - Wikipedia

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    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. There are about seven main types of collocations: adjective + noun, noun + noun ...

  3. Place of origin - Wikipedia

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    The place of domicile is now the sole payer of welfare costs. [2] In 1923, 1937, 1959 and 1967, more cantons signed treaties that assured that the place of domicile had to pay welfare costs instead of the place of origin, reflecting the fact that fewer and fewer people lived in their place of origin (1860: 59%, in 1910: 34%). [3]

  4. English collocations - Wikipedia

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    Compounds are units of meaning formed with two or more words. The words are usually written separately, but some may have a hyphen or be written as one word. Often the meaning of the compound can be guessed by knowing the meaning of the individual words.

  5. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - Wikipedia

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    The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), first published by Longman in 1978, [1] is an advanced learner's dictionary, providing definitions using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers understand meanings easily. It is available in four configurations: The dictionary is currently in its sixth edition.

  6. English phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down, run into, or sit up), sometimes collocated with a preposition (e.g., get together with, run out of, or feed off of). Phrasal verbs ordinarily cannot be understood based ...

  7. Inversion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Inversion (linguistics) In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their typical or expected order of appearance, that is, they invert. There are several types of subject-verb inversion in English: locative inversion, directive inversion, copular inversion, and quotative inversion.

  8. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionary People: the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-1-784-74493-9. Willinsky, John (1995), Empire of Words: The Reign of the Oxford English Dictionary (hardcover), Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-03719-6; Winchester, Simon (27 May 2007). "History of the Oxford English Dictionary".

  9. Collocation method - Wikipedia

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    Collocation method. In mathematics, a collocation method is a method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and integral equations. The idea is to choose a finite-dimensional space of candidate solutions (usually polynomials up to a certain degree) and a number of points in the domain ...