noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
glass ceiling
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Goodhue shattered the glass ceiling as the first female publisher at Time Inc.
vaulted ceiling/roof etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beamed
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An old pub with beamed ceilings , smoke-blackened, and a log fire crackling and spitting inside a deep alcove.
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The dining room has a beamed ceiling and a wood-burning stove within a stone fireplace.
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It has been sympathetically modernised and restored whilst retaining beamed ceilings and open fires in the lounge bar and television lounge.
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The kitchen was a great echoing place, with high beamed ceilings and quarry stone floor.
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Beyond was a completely cylindrical room, its beamed ceiling some nine feet high.
high
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Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling .
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Fluorescent lighting was now tucked up against the high ceilings , throwing down illumination too diffuse to satisfy.
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Into a different room now. High , high ceilings , like in a cathedral - dim, dusty, bare.
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It was a pleasant place, with high ceilings where fans swatted the air.
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High , high ceilings , like in a cathedral - dim, dusty, bare.
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I had expected something like the Central Y, with high ceilings , impressive stone pillars, and marbled stairs.
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In the interior of houses, high ceilings became the rule to keep rising hot air a comfortable distance from dwellers.
low
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A deep pelmet in a room with a low ceiling can have a heavy effect, increasing the problem.
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The fortieth floor had low ceilings , no windows, and the charm of an engine room.
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The main living rooms downstairs have low ceilings and are wood beamed.
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The room had roughly plastered walls and a low ceiling supported on enormous joists trimmed out of whole trees.
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They have a low , vaulted ceiling and damp, grimy walls which run with water when it rains.
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The interior was certainly unusual with its enclosed pews, low barrel ceiling , and tiny altar.
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Oak beams, low ceilings , roses round the door.
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Panelled from floor to cornice in walnut, it has the lowest ceiling of all the main rooms.
painted
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Although requiring modernisation the state rooms are still intact including their painted ceilings .
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On the top floor ahead of you, you may be able to see some painted ceilings of astrological subjects.
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Whilst a mirror can allow a clear view of a painted ceiling , it can none the less be disorientating and disquieting.
sloping
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On the top floor the bedrooms had pretty sloping ceilings and dormer windows peering out under eyelid gables.
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She did not go to the room with the twin beds but to the single room with the sloping ceiling .
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He raised his arm and touched the sloping ceiling above his head.
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Sloping solution: That awkward sloping ceiling normally presents a problem, but there is a solution in these Sliderobes fitted wardrobes.
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She stood in the doorway at the end of the corridor, looking into a small polygonal room with a sloping ceiling .
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He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling .
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It was small, with a sloping ceiling and a pair of windows set in deep embrasures.
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Top floor rooms may have a sloping ceiling .
vaulted
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The ground floor, now the cellar, has retained its original three rooms with vaulted ceilings .
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The ossuary inside the sanctuary is square with a vaulted ceiling .
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They have a low, vaulted ceiling and damp, grimy walls which run with water when it rains.
wooden
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The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.
■ NOUN
fan
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A ceiling fan can help ventilation but can also incorporate lighting and be decorative.
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It was pitch dark everywhere, and the whirr of the ceiling fan seemed to fill the silent bedroom.
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Christina entered the hallway and switched on the ceiling fan .
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Swimming pool Bar Lounge Restaurant All rooms have balcony, ceiling fan and private facilities.
glass
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We've got to recognise that many women in our organisation, for example, perceive a glass ceiling .
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The same folks who brought you mass layoffs and glass ceilings ?
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Just as age factors can produce glass barriers, women experience glass ceilings .
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Steel columns support the vaulted, domed glass ceilings .
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In the games room, supported by slate and iron pillars, a tracery of iron girders held the low glass ceiling .
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The glass ceiling does not exist because they don't let it.
joist
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In most households, small areas of the ceiling joists within the roof void are often boarded over to provide storage space.
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The existing ceiling joists must also be fire-protected with an overlay of glass fibre insulation, and new joists installed.
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The ceiling joists sit on the top of this wall.
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In either case, you will have to find the ceiling joists and mark their positions on the wall.
plaster
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Tom had swept the room clean and had fixed a lamp to a hook on the white plaster ceiling .
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Inside the quality finishes include cherry wood panelling, decorative plaster ceilings and marble floors.
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As well as the painted decoration, the Eastons are fortunate in also having two good plaster ceilings .
rose
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Option 1 is to connect the supply cable as a spur to an existing loop-in ceiling rose or junction box.
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In loop-in wiring, the circuit cables go direct to the ceiling roses , and all the connections are made there.
■ VERB
fall
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Fragments of dried earth fell from the ceiling .
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I never knew she was going to fall through the bloody ceiling and get knocked soft.
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Nervously, he stepped into the room and walked around, crunching the broken plaster that had fallen from the crumbling ceiling .
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The lantern swung on the beam, the glasses jumped on the table, and bits of earth fell from the ceiling .
fix
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Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls.
gaze
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Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling .
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Robins slightly endeared herself to me by going a little pink and gazing at the ceiling .
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She gazed at the ceiling , feeling her heart beat and breathing slowing to normal, her body quietening.
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She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford.
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Maurin was gazing at the ceiling .
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But others looked as though they were desperately trying to find a way out, gazing to the ceiling deep in thought.
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The two women remained motionless, gazing up at the ceiling as if to trace the source and direction of the footsteps.
hang
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Benny found herself in a rock-walled tunnel, with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling at regular intervals.
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Chamber 7e is dominated by a man-size iron cage which hangs from a ceiling hook.
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Most impressive, though, was what was hanging from the ceiling directly above the altar stone.
hit
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One tankard hit the ceiling , another broke a window.
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The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor.
hung
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And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread.
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Shirts and sheets they hung from the ceiling , draping them on lines and hangers.
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In the corner a rope hung down from the ceiling .
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Her elbows had been lashed together and she hung from the ceiling like a snared sparrow.
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Old tattered flags hung from the ceiling , their patterns long since faded into the air.
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Bunches of herbs and pot and saucepan racks can be hung from the ceiling .
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All the furniture in it hung from the ceiling by long mouldy ropes and did not quite touch the ground.
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Most, if not all, scenery is hung from the ceiling by the flies department.
impose
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These have to be settled, if necessary, by a process of reconciliation whereby the budget committees impose specific ceilings .
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Obviously the available time imposes an upper ceiling on this game, for there can be only one K per generation.
look
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They lie there a minute, looking up at the ceiling .
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He looked up at the ceiling .
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She was biting her lip and looking at the ceiling , as if willing herself awake.
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As she and Adam left, Buzz turned back to see Elinor silently looking at the ceiling .
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She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap, then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling .
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Instead, she looked up to the ceiling from where she got quite a lot of her inspiration.
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She was lying on her bed, looking up at the ceiling , Smudge and Whisky curled on her stomach.
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Urquhart looked to the ceiling in a gesture of comic despair.
paint
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Like Michelangelo we can paint the ceilings of the Sistine Chapels of the mind.
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For $ 190, you get nice suites with painted timber ceilings , breakfast included.
point
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Flex your feet so your toes are pointed to the ceiling .
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Then think of the knees pointing up to the ceiling .
raise
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Congress was frantically trying to complete a bill raising the federal debt ceiling in time for President Bush to sign today.
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He did not raise the ceiling on mortgage-interest relief, which Mrs Thatcher had pressed him to do.
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Many are reluctant to do so; they harbour hopes that the government will raise the 10% ceiling .
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I do not believe that the Commissioners justified their proposal to raise the ceiling .
reach
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They reach almost to the ceiling .
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The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low.
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The bedhead was florid and overblown, its shiny walnut carvings reaching almost to the ceiling .
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Do not stand on chairs to reach something at ceiling level.
set
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We know the MiG-2s already set a ceiling record of 120,000 feet.
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It has few exemptions, though it sets annual ceilings on how much individual patients pay.
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The regulations set a ceiling of 15 parts per billion.
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The Chancellor has set a ceiling of £250,000.
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So they risk losing most potential economic growth if a climate treaty sets ceilings on emissions.
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We will issue factories and power stations with licences setting a ceiling on permitted emissions of pollutants.
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It was a long windowless studio with neon strip-lighting set into the ceiling .
stare
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Her greenish eyes were wide open, staring sightless at the ceiling .
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Then you usually lie there just staring at the ceiling , thinking about everything that could go wrong.
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He was staring at the ceiling .
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Sara stared at her bedroom ceiling .
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Fulke slouched, staring up at the ceiling .
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He wandered off then came back to lie on his bed, staring up at the ceiling .
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Evelyn lay on her bed and stared at the ceiling .
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She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling and her thoughts immediately flashed back to Luke and last night.
suspend
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The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
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He gaped round the small room, realizing that he was suspended from a ceiling only fifteen feet high.
vault
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I have these dreams, too, and in them my bedroom is a light-filled suite with vaulted ceilings .
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The vaulted ceilings are hand painted.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hit the roof/ceiling
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He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit.
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One tankard hit the ceiling, another broke a window.
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The shell hit the roof of the building and made a mess of the inside of the building.
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The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor.
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Then, he proceeded to hit the ceiling.
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Top editors hit the roof Maybe one picture, but a page full of pictures of black women?
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Two shells hit the roof and one exploded in the corridor during the night.
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What would Old Chao do if he saw them, hit the roof on his way into outer space?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Congress was once again considering raising the federal debt ceiling .
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Import quotas may rise from the present ceiling of 18.5 million to 20 million.
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Millions of federal employees may not receive paychecks unless Congress raises the debt ceiling .
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There is a ceiling on the amount of foreign investment allowed in any company in the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And heaped up in one corner, almost touching the ceiling , was a huge pile of junk.
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Benny found herself in a rock-walled tunnel, with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling at regular intervals.
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But the tour revealed that the building has retained many treasures from its past: Its cathedral ceilings still have rounded corners.
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Genius is Michelangelo at work on the Sistine ceiling .
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The ossuary inside the sanctuary is square with a vaulted ceiling .
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The walls and ceilings were black, and the sole illumination was provided by black candles set in empty cat food cans.
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The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.
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Windows were shattered and ceilings cracked in several nearby towns.