noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drinking fountain
fountain pen
soda fountain
water fountain
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ornamental
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If a more decorative fountain is required, an ornamental fountain, such as this dolphin one, can be installed.
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Residents will be banned from filling swimming pools and spas, washing their vehicles at home and operating ornamental fountains .
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Each ornamental fountain is designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth, shell or similar object.
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Turn off B6160 by ornamental fountain .
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At Catterick, for instance, the only concentration of pottery was found in the ornamental fountain .
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Fountains Many garden pools have ornamental fountains which are switched on on hot days or when you are in the garden.
■ NOUN
pen
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Much of it looks engagingly olde-worlde: cameras disguised as tree branches and hypodermics fitted inside fountain pens .
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There is nothing developmental linking the middle childhood years with fountain pens and mismatched socks.
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Filled it in with his fountain pen .
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Silk tie, £55, silver and gold sun cufflinks, £295, blue and gold fountain pen , £105, Gucci.
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The writer of the best letter each month will be presented with a Montblanc Solitaire fountain pen .
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She had to be fed, as well as by me, with a kind of pipette, like a fountain pen filler.
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On Wednesday after the selection committee meeting, I realized I'd left my fountain pen in here.
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There was a silence, the Matron, who was a Miss Cress, tapping her fountain pen lightly on the blotter.
soda
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Katherine found a small restaurant with a soda fountain .
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His question brought to mind my thought that time at the soda fountain with his father.
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The crew will get up to 90 servings from a dispenser set up like a soda fountain at a convenience store.
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They spoke across the dinner table; they went together to the movies and soda fountains .
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People were lined up at the cash registers and soda fountain .
water
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The water fountain became an altar, standing on marble pillars and graced by its own fan design.
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I take a long drink at the water fountain , wondering what virus I might catch.
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Simon stood to the side, hand still on the water fountain , watching Harriet and Tony Angotti.
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I found the stairs and headed down, catching her at the water fountain just outside the locker rooms.
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Try not to curse when the girls are gossiping at the water fountain and all you want is a drink.
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Apparently, Buster Austin had broken in line behind Dooley at the water fountain .
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Of course, what Dooley did at the water fountain was only half the story!
■ VERB
drink
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She could make even the unbelievers know that she had drunk from the Spiritual fountains of water.
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Simon raised his head from the drinking fountain .
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Out of nine mural, or wall, drinking fountains , only three appear to survive.
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The crow on the roots of the bruyere tree drinks from a fountain called Moliere.
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Many categories of street furniture can now be listed - pillar boxes, telephone kiosks, drinking fountains and bus shelters.
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Well, they just stop up one end of it and make the water come out through a drinking fountain .
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Public toilets and drinking fountains were suspected.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bronze plaque on the fountain read: Given in loving memory of Rachel Livingstone Baxtei; 1889-1942.
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He relished the coolness, the raised beds of flowers and herbs, and the elaborately carved fountains splashing in the centre.
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If a more decorative fountain is required, an ornamental fountain, such as this dolphin one, can be installed.
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Part of its appeal stemmed from the Tom Bass fountain inset into its wall, a long thin crack in the stone.
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Simon stood to the side, hand still on the water fountain , watching Harriet and Tony Angotti.
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The Piazza is named after the Piermarini fountain that stands at its centre.
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We sat in the chairs that are set out in summer around a fountain .