I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a golf cart (= a small car used on golf courses )
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He used a golf cart to get around the course.
cart track
dust cart
shopping cart
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
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Children, boys and girls, were loading small carts to be dragged along by old horses.
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The Headmaster turned towards a row of small carts sitting on a miniature railway track that stretched the length of the corridor.
■ NOUN
apple
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As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
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Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart , which is precisely what happened in Florida.
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Pamela Stephenson is upsetting the apple cart with her war against harmful pesticides in our food.
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Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or some one comes along to upset the apple cart .
golf
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He arrives driving a golf cart with two personal assistants who will never leave his side.
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They climbed into the car and she took off at maximum golf cart speed.
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In many cases a golf cart is included, and some packages add a free beer after the round!
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Whoever invented the golf cart deserves an honored place in the annals of sport.
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He used to hate golf carts .
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As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart .
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Bateman and his crew tried to herd the geese themselves, as if they were cowboys on golf carts .
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Another problem is golfers are using golf carts , and they often must drive among the crowd between tees and greens.
horse
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You know, just from looking at it, that it's not a cart horse .
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Ratagan was like a great bear, and he rode something approaching a cart horse .
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And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he didn't give a damn.
track
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By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
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We were on one of those cart tracks through the sandhills north-west of Jodhpur.
■ VERB
drive
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He arrives driving a golf cart with two personal assistants who will never leave his side.
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Men drove horse-drawn carts , women carried bundles of food and firewood.
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Some one driving a laundry cart found him.
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Tell Mr Boldwood that you will drive my new cart over to Casterbridge this afternoon to fetch her body.
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She drove a little pony and cart - he smiled suddenly at the memory of the little pony and cart.
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As Joseph was clearly incapable of driving the cart , Gabriel drove it to Weatherbury himself.
pull
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Another job was a drawer, pulling carts of coal.
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Every day refugees pulling carts passed the gates of the Institution.
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The actors also play the horse that pulls their cart and perform juggling, tumbling and let off mock cannon fire.
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She stopped strangers pulling handmade carts and demanded that they admit they had seen her brother.
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The two Davises were seated in a carriage pulling their cart , which contained photographic equipment.
push
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Two pull and push a cart piled with props and belongings.
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As McMenamy pushed the cart to the outside door of the bank, Fish followed, scanning the parking lot.
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The makan woman went by through the room, pushing her cart , the wheels squeaking.
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Madmen and mad women pushing shopping carts nearly ran over children, then dared cars to run them over.
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All nine checkout counters are backed up with huge lines of people pushing loaded carts .
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She pushed a cart to the bed and cranked it up over his lap.
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She hung up and watched a young woman in a tailored suit come in from the parking lot pushing a cart .
put
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This is putting the cart before the horse.
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McMenamy put the cart on the ground.
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It seems to me that Mr Topolski is putting the cart before the horse.
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This may sound like putting the cart before the horse and being unnecessarily pessimistic.
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But at the moment this looks like a case of putting the cart a long way before the horse.
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It is Labour's insistence on putting the cart before the horse which fills me with gloom.
shop
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Pushing a shopping cart full of possessions.
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When we park the shopping cart and dump our bag, they swoop down to investigate.
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Madmen and mad women pushing shopping carts nearly ran over children, then dared cars to run them over.
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VerioStore incorporates on-line product catalogs, a cash register, a shopping cart and shipping and sales tax calculations.
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Strangely, I have never seen pictures of smiling persons with shopping carts standing over piles of steak.
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Rounding the third aisle, catching up on months of gossip, we practically hit her with our shopping cart .
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I wheel a shopping cart down the aisles of the neighborhood Grand Union, and he follows, swiftly, greedily.
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In another exercise, we were put in groups and given the job of redesigning a shopping cart .
upset
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As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
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Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart , which is precisely what happened in Florida.
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Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or some one comes along to upset the apple cart .
wheel
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The church was a hive of activity; some villagers had wheeled a huge cart into the nave.
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I wheel a shopping cart down the aisles of the neighborhood Grand Union, and he follows, swiftly, greedily.
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In the supermarket, we felt grand wheeling around our shopping cart , overflowing with groceries enough for a whole week.
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Two women wheeled the shopping cart into the dairy cooler for safekeeping so the Moes could go have lunch.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
upset the apple cart
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As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
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Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or some one comes along to upset the apple cart.
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Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart, which is precisely what happened in Florida.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Then the waiter wheeled the dessert cart over to our table.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A cart drove very loudly into the yard below.
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A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here.
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As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart .
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McMenamy stacked the bags on the cart .
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Pamela Stephenson is upsetting the apple cart with her war against harmful pesticides in our food.
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Petrol is nearly nonexistent too: deliveries are made in dray carts.
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Some one almost crashed into her cart .
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The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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For him, the trout are stacked in rows like a crate of open-mouthed empties, waiting to be carted away .
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Why would they cart away bones?
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Household and public rubbish is carted away by the city's relatively efficient Sanitation Department.
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Their relatives carted away their bicycles and paraffin lamps.
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Once the firing was completed the clinker was broken out and carted away to be ground.
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The salt crystallises and is carted away for use in soda-ash plants and glass-making.
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And why should any brother of Shrewsbury want to see our best patroness carted away to Ramsey?
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The boats came in and were unloaded; and the fish was carted away .
off
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I had to be carted off to hospital, so I didn't manage to complete the work until the new year.
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Brognar Blackstrap, the band goes ashore to check out the island and see what riches they can cart off .
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The bad yellow-eyed woman made me take my toothbrush in case I got carted off to pokey.
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Some of them were carted off to mental hospitals.
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Me being carted off with the sirens going would just about put my street cred in overdraft.
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But those men separated clean like they were just carted off .
■ NOUN
horse
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For shifting material with a horse and cart James Bell was paid £1: 12s.: 0d. for eight days' work.
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They don't know about cold so intense that rivers freeze over so you can drive a horse and cart across them.
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Possibly in answer a man got drunk and was pinched for being in charge of a horse and cart the while.
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I went with Father or my brother Jack at first, but later I took the horse and cart up myself.
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I just took the horse and cart myself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A burglar carted away all the family's Christmas presents.
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After carting my equipment around the world, it's nice to be working closer to home.
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I'm not going to cart your shopping around all afternoon.
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Madge picked up the box and carted it out to the back yard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Household and public rubbish is carted away by the city's relatively efficient Sanitation Department.
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I had to cart water for her.
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I had to be carted off to hospital, so I didn't manage to complete the work until the new year.
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Others had walked a mile to a well and were carting back three large brass pots stacked on their heads.
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The boats came in and were unloaded; and the fish was carted away.
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Why would they cart away bones?