noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fine day/morning/evening
a fun day/evening etc
a morning/afternoon/evening shift
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All the machines are cleaned at the end of every afternoon shift.
a summer's day/evening ( also a summer day/evening )
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It was a beautiful summer's day.
an evening bag (= a small bag that a woman takes out with her in the evening )
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She put her lipstick in a black velvet evening bag.
an evening breeze
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People were out walking, enjoying the evening breeze.
an evening class
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Mum goes to an evening class on Tuesdays.
an evening dress (= a formal dress to wear in the evening )
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She arrived in a red evening dress.
an evening paper
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Ian usually buys an evening paper on his way home.
an evening/midday meal
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The evening meal is served at 7.30.
chilly day/night/evening etc
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a chilly November morning
early in the morning/afternoon/evening
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We set off early in the morning.
early morning/afternoon/evening
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The lake looked beautiful in the pale early morning light.
evening class
evening clothes
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I don’t often have a chance to wear formal evening clothes.
evening dress
evening primrose
evening wear formal (= clothes worn to formal events in the evening )
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The band were dressed in evening wear.
good evening
in the cool of the evening
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They went for a stroll in the cool of the evening .
morning/afternoon/evening calm
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A scream shattered the late afternoon calm.
morning/evening/midnight etc Mass
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Will I see you at morning Mass?
the morning/afternoon/evening sun
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We ate breakfast outside in the gentle morning sun.
the morning/afternoon/evening sunlight
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Their armour glinted in the early morning sunlight.
the morning/afternoon/evening sunshine
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The morning sunshine brightened the room.
the morning/evening mist
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The sun broke through the morning mist.
the morning/evening/night air
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He stepped out and breathed in the cold morning air.
the night/evening/morning sky
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The moon is the brightest object visible in the night sky.
wedding/evening/ball gown
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a white silk wedding gown
yesterday morning/afternoon/evening
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Anna left yesterday afternoon.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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On Christmas Eve my nine-year-old grandson James was admitted in the early evening for an emergency appendix operation.
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But perhaps the early evening was better still?
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Fish come up from the deep sea in the early morning and the early evening .
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For the rest of the afternoon and early evening Lucenzo avoided her, and her nerves reached breaking-point.
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Lunchtime or early evening are preferable.
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George would spend early evenings lying on the hillside with her, professing his love.
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His design shows a new York skyline on an early summer evening .
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The early evening had been fine and then it darkened over with thundercloud and got warmer.
good
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Video-Taped report follows Read in studio Good evening .
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A star signaled overhead and he saw it. Good evening , Mitchell said.
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Ah, good evening , Lestrade!
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It was, had been, too good an evening to spoil it with a half-soaked wrangle.
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Read in studio Video-Taped report follows Voice over Read in studio Good evening .
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Time allowed 00:53 Read in studio Good evening .
late
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Jerome Topstock Theodora stepped out into the warm air of the late summer evening .
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Together they have lived out a day, from quiet morning to rowdy late evening .
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He found it was at its worst in the late evenings when he sat alone in Fern Cottage.
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As of late last evening , however, the major stock exchanges were planning to open today.
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Johnny Wilson had a repeat scheduled for late evening .
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It was late in the evening , and I was finishing up the layout on the last issue of the magazine.
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On Tuesday January 26 Michael Wilson will give a special lecture prior to late evening admission to the exhibition.
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It was late evening , but there was lamplight on the deck.
long
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A clutch of long white Friday evening faces confronted me.
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But a long black evening gown will.
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But the tick was a comfort on long evenings .
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It looked like darkness would fall long before evening .
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The cocktail and long and short evening dresses I saw, were most attractive and cleverly designed.
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It was a long evening , and he arrived home at two in the morning, much the worse for wear.
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After the long luxurious evening they went back to Kev's place.
previous
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Fabia awakened and, as she recalled her non-achievement of the previous evening , her mood matched the dull morning.
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Peter Miller had left late the previous evening .
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Everything was exactly the same as it had been when she'd gone to sleep the previous evening .
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That had been the word from Soong through the previous evening .
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Slowly the events of the previous evening re-assembled themselves.
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Eddie explained that the day's work had started at seven o'clock the previous evening when two customers telephoned requesting samples.
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She had not seen her daughter since 9 o'clock the previous evening .
■ NOUN
friday
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After several weeks of negotiations, Manzi and Jones reached a deal last Friday evening .
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Meet me for dinner at the Good wood Park Hotel on Friday evening: are you free?
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After parking on the Palladium catering hall lot Friday evening , I slipped on my tie and sports jacket.
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One Friday evening I realized that my voice was going and I could do nothing about it.
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Identities of the victims were not released by early Friday evening .
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My first meal was dinner on a Friday evening .
meal
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Price includes bed and breakfast, however evening meals may be taken at the Leonetto for a supplement.
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The evening meal generally includes two courses: the food cost averages £1.35p.
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Once a week in fine weather a barbecue replaces an evening meal .
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The bed and breakfast houses are within a three minute walk; the evening meal is served in the Strass.
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The prize includes first class rail fares to Rusland Hall and two nights' accommodation with breakfast and evening meal .
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For lunch and the evening meal there are several recommended local pubs and restaurants.
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Could she sit through their evening meal , knowing, and not telling?
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The four-course evening meal is home-cooked using fresh ingredients.
monday
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By Monday evening the devaluation was a reality; the president was back in the Kremlin.
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I am continuing this letter Monday evening .
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The service reopened on Monday evening after being down for nearly four hours.
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At times the Monday evening services attracted only a handful of people and seemed to have little effect.
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That led to detection of a second device Monday evening in a subbasement mail room.
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By Monday evening , authorities in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma had joined the manhunt.
news
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She had seen him on the telly - he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet.
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The headline stories of newspapers are developed and reported on the evening news by general-assignment reporters.
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The nine o'clock evening news had an audience of half the population during the war, but this fell quickly in 1945.
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I eat off stack-up plastic tables as I watch the evening news .
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The result is a striking testimony to the power of television's evening news .
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But the overriding image carried every night on the evening news has been one of a woefully inadequate effort.
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We believe what we hear on the evening news and read in the morning paper.
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Countless examples of community-based development are rejecting the modern models and are truly making history-but they are not making the evening news .
paper
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His boast would also be in the later editions of the evening papers .
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The evening paper here has a more accurate account.
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An evening paper was the only way of discovering the result.
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But he looked worse than that when he saw the evening paper .
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This shake-out left only Glasgow with two evening papers .
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At about eight, when it was dark, Tom went downstairs to buy the evening papers .
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This paper is an evening paper and has a very high readership.
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He bought the evening papers and sat in a little restaurant a few streets away, reading them.
performance
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The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances .
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Tickets are $ 10 to $ 32 for the evening performances and $ 6 to $ 20 for the matinee.
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Once he did as the Professor had hoped he might do, and gave Paul a ticket for an evening performance .
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The evening performance - a Mozart Symphony - didn't start until seven and it would mean a late return home.
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The read-through finished at midday to give St Ives a rest before the evening performance of Caesar and Cleopatra.
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It gave us a little time together before she dashed off for the evening performance .
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The production lasted well over three hours, and then it was soon time to get ready for the evening performance .
saturday
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On Saturday evenings , this Yoruba woman called Ome Boku commanded our attention.
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One found the pleasure principle at work again Saturday evening .
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There was a concert on the Saturday evening .
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On Saturday evening came the Easter Vigil, a night of lilies, fire and flowing water.
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The officer came there regularly on Saturday evenings , and the nurse dressed up to go out with him.
summer
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The splendid grounds form a perfect backdrop to the lakeside concerts held here on summer evenings .
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Your father showed you a couple of things when you played with him in the summer evenings .
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It was a typical summer evening in June.
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We crossed a park and walked through a ring of benches where peo-ple were enjoying the summer evening .
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I watched Ilsa climb the stairs in the golden haze of the summer evening .
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Society of summer evenings in Lake Wobegon was formal and genteel.
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Jerome Topstock Theodora stepped out into the warm air of the late summer evening .
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On summer evenings , when the sky remained light until nine, there was plenty of time to play ball after dinner.
sunday
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Late on Sunday evening , we passed Giles on his way out of his hotel.
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On a postcard-perfect Sunday evening , they saw the Cowboys dominate early and the Steelers dominate late.
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With something like amazed laughter and, of course, love, Timothy Sunday evening Timothy!
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On Sunday evening she would just sit there and ignore the baby.
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The Royal frequently failed Gatti Sunday evening in his arrogantly hysterical reading.
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Several years earlier, Gary had begun attending the 5: 30 mass on Sunday evenings at Holy Trinity.
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Jerry, what did you do in my lab that Sunday evening ?
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As a result some 800 people jammed the church each Sunday evening at 5: 30.
■ VERB
spend
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What a way to spend one's first evening in Rome.
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Where did they spend their evenings ?
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I couldn't say where he spent that evening , not for certain.
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He also spent his evenings at the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, squandering extravagant sums.
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I spent most evenings and every free period from college by your bedside.
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John Hall spent most of his evenings getting drunk with Jim Storter.
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Instead of ironing, as she'd planned, she'd spend the evening with her sketchpad.
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Four hours later I was driving to his house for dinner and we spent the evening just talking.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make a day/night/evening of it
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Why don't you make a day of it and have lunch with us?
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I had known Sophie for about three months by then, and she insisted on making an evening of it.
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Imagine how lovely it would be - you could take the whole family and make a day of it.
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They make a day of it, tailgating before the game and, weather permitting, after it, too.
of an evening/of a weekend etc
the still of the night/evening etc
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No longer are her anxious snorts heard in the still of the night.
while away the hours/evening/days etc
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Let's while away the hours swapping stories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I have a class Thursday evening .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But his campaign headquarters is staffed by 20 volunteers daily, and another 20 volunteers work in phone banks each evening .
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Due to a shortage of whiskey that evening , the party broke up early.
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He decides, literally, to play for time and makes a debut at Nero's banquet that evening .
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However, on the evening of Wednesday 9 October another meeting was called, also in the City Hotel.
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One evening I showed them an article I had written in a magazine.
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The river level in Hillsboro was 7 feet, right at flood stage, by early evening , Crocker said.