collocate
Americanverb (used with object)
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collocates,
present (3rd person singular)
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collocated,
past participle, past
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collocating
present participle
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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)
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collocates,
present (3rd person singular)
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collocated,
past participle, past
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collocating
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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collocatesimple
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collocatessimple
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have collocatedperfect
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has collocatedperfect
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am collocatingprogressive
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are collocatingprogressive
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is collocatingprogressive
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have been collocatingperfect progressive
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has been collocatingperfect progressive
Past
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collocatedsimple
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had collocatedperfect
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was collocatingprogressive
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were collocatingprogressive
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had been collocatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of collocate
1505–15; < Latin collocātus (past participle of collocāre ), equivalent to col- col- 1 + loc ( us ) place + -ātus -ate 1
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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
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 Maxwell T. Masters
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 Elihu Burritt
If by heat or other causes this barrier is removed, the energy naturally changes direction in a corresponding manner and collocates the atoms accordingly for the formation of curd.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
Cyprian has never called prayer a "sacrifice" without qualifying terms; on the contrary he collocates "preces" and "sacrificium," and sometimes also "oblatio" and "sacrificium."
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
“This is even before you get to the communication challenges of concurrent, collocated hazards with contradicting lifesaving calls to action,” Nielsen said.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
These sentences are not thus collocated in the original.
From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Andrew Lang
A cold, drenching rain was falling, darkening but not altogether hiding its extraordinary beauty, made up of lovely reaches and side fiords, feathery headlands and islands, beautiful every one and charmingly collocated.
From Travels in Alaska by John Muir
The truth is that causal elements remain and when they are properly collocated the effect is produced.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
It is in charge of political education in the military establishment and has an organization paralleling, and collocated with, that of the regular services.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier
The flow of knowledge on account of the peculiarities of its own collocating conditions generates sometimes what we call right perception and sometimes wrong perception or illusion.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
At the first sound of their voices Lucian detected so pronounced a twang, and so curious a way of collocating words, as to conclude that Mrs. Vrain and her amiable parent hailed from the States.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of species.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
It is not so much even as a collocating or placing force of matter itself.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
Collocā′tion, act of collocating: disposition in place: arrangement.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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