BOG


Meaning of BOG in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

bog roll

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

garden

The extra amount of liner needed to make the bog garden must be allowed for at the planning stage.

A bog garden is a natural extension of a pool in which moisture loving plants can be grown.

However, if a plastic or fibreglass pool is used a small independent polythene lined bog garden will have to be constructed.

Caltha palustris, the marsh marigold her in its single and double-flowered forms, brings sunny colour to the bog garden .

It is reached by stepping stones over the lawn and a small bridge crossing the bog garden and two linking fish pools.

peat

She remembered watching peasants clear the unworked peat bog .

He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.

The one piece upper has kept my feet dry even when walking through peat bogs .

Of the original 34,500 hectares, only 500 hectares of pristine peat bog now remain.

Old jagged roots dug from peat bogs are especially good.

Most of Lewis is acid peat bog , and much of Harris bare rock.

And for our next trick - the peat bog nappy?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As we walked up the river and got closer to Umbagog Lake, we entered a bog .

But the red maples at the bog already had a red tinge.

Comments: A very hardy plant which, though essentially a bog one, will adapt well to submerged conditions.

For example it might be forced into a river, bog or straight through a wall.

Like oil, gas and coal fields, peat bogs act as vast carbon stores.

Peat bogs, nearly all of which occur in northern latitudes. are some of the most important environments for wetland archaeology.

Suddenly it swooped down towards something in the bog and vanished from sight.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

down

If the images in Myst bog down your screen, pony up the bucks for more memory or a faster video card.

When the referees begin calling the plays and deciding who gets in the game, the entire system begins to bog down .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

If the images in Myst bog down your screen, pony up the bucks for more memory or a faster video card.

If the necklace is bogging me down, then those things are doing it too.

They were told to bog off.

When the referees begin calling the plays and deciding who gets in the game, the entire system begins to bog down.

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