I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ginger cat (= which has orange-brown fur )
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I've always wanted a ginger cat.
ginger ale
ginger beer
ginger group
ginger nut
ginger British English (= orange-brown in colour )
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a cheeky little boy with ginger hair
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fresh
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Add a little grated fresh root ginger to the mixture, if you wish.
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In remaining oil, saute onions, peppers, fresh ginger , cayenne pepper, curry powder and coriander until golden.
■ NOUN
root
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Now star fruit and okra jostle root ginger and mangoes on supermarket shelves.
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Add a little grated fresh root ginger to the mixture, if you wish.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Add a little grated fresh root ginger to the mixture, if you wish.
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Chop the coriander leaves and mix with the ginger .
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Decorate with plain icing sugar mixed with water, or sprinkle ground ginger on top.
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He will drink whisky and dry ginger .
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In a medium pan cover ginger with cold water and add salt.
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Place ginger on a wire rack to dry for at least an hour.
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Scatter the green onion bottoms and half the ginger on the plate and lay the fish on top, skin side down.
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This writer, also a tuna fan, opts for the ahi Napoleon with pickled ginger and sesame soy drizzle.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ale
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We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale .
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Make it a glass of plain ginger ale .
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But I fix her her bourbon and ginger ale with the dash of ReaLemon just the way she likes it.
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We had some cans of ginger ale in a cooler, but they had gone bad, exploded.
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Fresh coffee and cookies, punch with ginger ale and lime sherbet floating in it.
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Mike poured me a Johnny Walker Black, then filled his own glass with ginger ale .
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Ham and cheese and a ginger ale sounds great.
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His friend stood on the porch with him, agitating in his hand a paper cup full of whisky and ginger ale .
beer
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Just like drinking ginger beer really.
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The friend bought for Mrs. Donoghue a bottle of ginger beer , manufactured by Stevenson.
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It had been hard to convince the Imperial's sommelier of the necessity for the presence of porter and ginger beer .
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When appealed to for her support over the ginger beer , Araminta had laughed.
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I've made some ginger beer .
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Forcing a smile on to her face she poured out two glasses of ginger beer .
cat
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Beneath the stage a stray ginger cat climbs on huge pieces of outdated production machinery from before the second world war.
hair
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With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner.
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Profuse amounts of grey and ginger hair sprouted from nose and ears.
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One was white, of medium height with fair or ginger hair cut short on one side and longer on the other.
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Bessie was a fiery character, a large plump woman with a shock of ginger hair , freckles and green eyes.
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A pair of waving ginger hairs appeared in the corner of a mouth the colour of old putty.
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The other in his 30's, with ginger hair and moustache and a tweed sports coat.
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He has short ginger hair , and is clean shaven with freckles.
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A little idiosyncratic, I think, my appearance - but without going to the slightly absurd lengths of ginger hair and freckles.
root
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Always have a head of garlic and a piece of fresh ginger root to impart a Far-Eastern flavour to simple ingredients.
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I boil ginger root , and with the cooled scented water, I ba the you for a final time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A checkered garter snake gave birth to three baby snakes in the ginger belt at the edge of the rain forest.
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He had a ginger moustache, and a Geordie accent to boot.
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I don't know why he went in there because he wouldn't find any stronger restorative than ginger pop.
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Profuse amounts of grey and ginger hair sprouted from nose and ears.
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There was the smell of fermenting has and citrus blossoms and ginger lilies and bonemeal and sulphur-coated urea.