adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bald patch
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He stroked the bald patch on the back of his head .
a bald tyre (= one which has worn smooth )
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When police officers examined the car, they discovered that it had two bald tyres.
bald eagle
bald
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His bald head shone with sweat.
go mad/deaf/bald etc
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He went crazy and tried to kill her.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
eagle
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Young kids are sometimes seized by bald eagles .
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The San Francisco Zoo has the largest and most successful captive breeding program for bald eagles in the nation, Aikin said.
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Its carcass is eaten by a bald eagle , whose gut becomes lined with oil.
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Moose and bear prints dotted the sand bars and bald eagles glared down at us from river-side perches.
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Here on another great pine we saw the nest of a bald eagle .
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A canary the bald eagle is not, but it should serve to warn us.
head
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The little man nodded his bald head , his eyes simple as a child's.
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Barry Kirk, 42, wears an orange jumpsuit and cape and paints his bald head orange.
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How his bald head doth shine!
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He speaks emphatically, does Robert Bruck, his bald head bobbing atop a thickset frame.
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He hated showing his bald head .
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I sat in the cool, shuttered room and watched the slightly bowed bald head behind the shining black harpsichord.
man
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A bald man wanted his portrait enhanced with glistening black hair.
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The bald man translated his words to me.
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The bald man beside her raised his forefinger.
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He began to prod the bald man with the barrel of it.
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The bald man repeated his threat.
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The bald man extended a toe and slid it experiment ally across the glassy surface of ice.
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The bald man screamed loudly at Ivan.
patch
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My hair falls out at the slightest touch, sometimes leaving little bald patches .
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But this can just mean patchy regrowth, with bald patches , not the whole leg of hair disappearing.
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Same-shaped bald patch , same fringe of white hair.
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If you crick your neck you might spot the odd bald patch , too!
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I noticed a small bald patch on the crown of his head.
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It was thin and ragged, and folded forward to hide a growing bald patch .
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More so than the bald patch at the back of his head.
pate
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Not the bottle that guarantees to turn your grey hair black or make your bald pate sprout again, but something else.
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The sun was behind him and she could see the glare that shone on his bald pate .
spot
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Waves comb in over the beach's bald spots .
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He was clean-shaven, wore glasses and had dark hair with a bald spot .
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He had a bald spot , under a straggle of brown hair, and a ratty Fu Manchu moustache.
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So, too, is the considerable bald spot at the back of his head.
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And he had an absolutely cracking bald spot .
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Each soiled bald spot pinpoints a section they most often need to look up.
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Give her a bald spot , but one we can see.
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It does not work on completely bald spots and must be used indefinitely.
statement
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Historians do not make bald statements and always attempt to substantiate their point.
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The account relied more heavily on innuendo than bald statement but the message was clear.
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We recognised that the bald statement in the preceding paragraph requires amplification.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The tires are bald and the car is in need of repair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bald man wanted his portrait enhanced with glistening black hair.
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Chester, the mild and laconic prematurely bald guy.
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He was clean-shaven, wore glasses and had dark hair with a bald spot.
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His bald head was shiny; his black shoes were shiny; and his lecture was very shiny indeed.
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The men thus affected have very little hair on the body, and become bald early in life.