I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wooden
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I got to sit down after that, and I find a wooden crate .
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A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.
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This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road, capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates .
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And much of the liquid used to simulate nerve gas at the test site was contained by the wooden crates .
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Maura sat on the wooden crate .
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The cabin is gouged open, spilling out wooden crates , twisted pieces of metal, a blown-up life raft.
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The second, lit by a single row of fluorescent lights, was stacked with large wooden crates from end to end.
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He looked around at all the cartons and wooden crates .
■ NOUN
milk
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A couple of candles burned on a milk crate , and the moon lit up the meadow below us.
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Spider was sitting on a milk crate in the back room when he got there.
■ VERB
pack
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Out of the remaining 200 packed into the second crate only 76 survived.
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They were the ones standing on packing crates outside the post hospital, looking proudly through the windows into the nursery.
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Other creatures travel in soil or packing crates , or are introduced for food or ornament.
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Come to think of it, they might want to hang on to those packing crates .
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Houses were shoulder-high, made of old packing crates and strips of sheet metal, the walls stuffed with cardboard and rags.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a crate of beer
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a big plastic crate for storing toys
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.
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Above him vast silver dirigibles moved in the morning sky, great black crates strung beneath them.
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Beer was bottled each day, then labelled and put into crates.
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Go up and left, killing both the guards and the policeman with the crates.
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Hall threw in the third crate for a Quinn goal that was disallowed.
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He sat down quickly on the Bendix crate to bring himself closer to my level.
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Houses were shoulder-high, made of old packing crates and strips of sheet metal, the walls stuffed with cardboard and rags.
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The informant showed gun crates marked with the names of Norinco and Poly Technologies to an undercover agent.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hearst had to pay 65 laborers for nine months to dismantle the monastery, crate it up and move it.
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The $ 3 million Mitsubishi scoreboard lay crated in a loading area.