collocate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to set or place together, especially side by side.
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to arrange in proper order.
to collocate events.
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has collocatedperfect 3rd person singular
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have collocatedperfect
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has been collocatingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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are collocatingprogressive
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have been collocatingperfect progressive
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am collocatingprogressive 1st person singular
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is collocatingprogressive 3rd person singular
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collocatessingular 3rd person
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collocatingparticiple
Past
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had collocatedperfect
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were collocatingprogressive plural
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had been collocatingperfect progressive
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was collocatingprogressive singular
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collocatedparticiple
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collocatedsimple
Future
Etymology
Origin of collocate
1505–15; < Latin collocātus (past participle of collocāre ), equivalent to col- col- 1 + loc ( us ) place + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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You can offer the context, the precedents, the keys to interpretation that help to collocate the fact that has happened.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2021
Put the three together and condense or collocate their several meanings in one compound qualification which you can write and another spell, and you do not compass the signification you want to convey.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu
It is thus that morphologists have been enabled to frame types or standards of reference, and systematists to collocate the organisms they deal with into groups.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
De Cagotis tollendis, to collocate his Summum Bonum, in Braguibus, et Braguetis.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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