noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bicycle helmet
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It’s safer to wear a bicycle helmet.
a cycle helmet (= hat to protect your head )
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He wasn’t wearing a cycle helmet.
crash helmet
pith helmet
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
steel
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In the train he sat opposite me with his rifle across his knees and his steel helmet drowning his face.
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They are holding automatic rifles and wearing steel helmets .
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There was a sentry in a steel helmet at the door.
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He was a mousy man: long thin strands of hair protruded erratically from under his steel helmet .
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Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets .
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He put his rifle and his steel helmet up on the rack and was soon asleep.
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The searchlight remained fixed on us and a heavily muffled figure in a long overcoat and a steel helmet came towards us.
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He was so tall that his steel helmet grated gently against the top of the door when he came in.
wearing
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This time the attackers were young and wearing crash helmets with visors.
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You are trying to police without wearing helmets .
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They are holding automatic rifles and wearing steel helmets .
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At Nottingham, he claimed, there had been a tradition once of wearing metal pit helmets at football matches.
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The court heard there were four men in the gang, all wearing balaclava helmets and armed with two sawn-off shotguns.
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In July 1989 wearing helmets was made mandatory for pedal cyclists.
white
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They have Kalashnikov rifles slung ready across their chests and wear distinctive red and white armbands and helmets .
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He wears a white helmet that is sealed to his airtight suit and he strides to the unmarked plane without delay.
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They live mostly on the forest canopy and have white fur crash helmets with black faces and black ears peeping out.
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The guy he was referring to was walking quietly to-ward us, a sergeant wearing a white helmet and bright armbands.
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The princess removes her white crash helmet to chat to a fellow team member.
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At the gate a wedge of white helmets drove back the pickets.
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Henrietta is wearing a matt white helmet , a silk scarf wound tightly round her face and heavy leather gauntlets.
■ NOUN
crash
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This time the attackers were young and wearing crash helmets with visors.
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Maybe they could have used crash helmets .
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Never seen him without his crash helmet on; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew.
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The answer: wear crash helmets .
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In a number of countries for some years, the wearing of crash helmets by motor cyclists has been obligatory.
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Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike, but Andy the neighbour had a spare crash helmet .
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They live mostly on the forest canopy and have white fur crash helmets with black faces and black ears peeping out.
pith
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Small wonder that doctors are calling for the return of the parasol and pith helmet .
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The only real difference would be that the colonial governors sent to deal with the locals back then usually wore pith helmets .
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Two men in pith helmets stood on a canal towpath slapping each other's faces with fish in time to music.
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The pith helmet with an attentive elephant in waiting.
safety
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Full transparent face shields or visors may be specified as an alternative and are sometimes an integral part of a safety helmet .
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At the first change over it's off with the shoes and on with the safety helmet .
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Steven put his safety helmet further back on his head.
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The safety helmet was another of his discoveries, his good ideas.
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Protective gloves and a safety helmet are worn to minimize injury.
■ VERB
put
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Philip put the helmet back on.
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Steven put his safety helmet further back on his head.
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A policeman famously put his helmet over my chest to protect my modesty.
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Andrew put the leather helmet down and wandered over to the window.
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He sat down now in the hide and put the helmet on.
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He wiped the inside of the helmet with his anorak sleeve and put the helmet down beside him.
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He put the helmet on the top, watching the leather blacken.
take
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With his other hand he took the helmet off.
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They take their helmets off, and the kids stop, too.
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But it's when Mansell takes his helmet off that the trouble starts.
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Hector laughed and took the shining helmet from his head.
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Woolley took off his helmet and vigorously massaged his scalp.
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He was convinced he'd take the helmet .
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I decided to chance it and killed the bike's engine and took off the helmet .
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When he took off his dented helmet he proved to have bristly fair hair above a snub-nosed face.
wear
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Thorfinn had not even troubled to wear his helmet .
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Why did she not wear her helmet , as she usually does?
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They wore helmets suggestive of the heads of flies, and their black silks were embroidered with arcane silver hieroglyphics.
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He wears a white helmet that is sealed to his airtight suit and he strides to the unmarked plane without delay.
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Minerva, like Athene, was usually depicted wearing a helmet and armour and carrying a lance and shield.
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Some of the men and women filing into the noisy dining hall are wearing protective helmets .
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The lads from the nail factory were still wearing their helmets .
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Like most stables, Undermountain recommends that riders wear helmets and sturdy shoes and sign a release before riding.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
safety harness/helmet/glasses etc
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At the first change over it's off with the shoes and on with the safety helmet.
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Full transparent face shields or visors may be specified as an alternative and are sometimes an integral part of a safety helmet.
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Protective gloves and a safety helmet are worn to minimize injury.
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Steven put his safety helmet further back on his head.
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The safety helmet was another of his discoveries, his good ideas.
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They clip it into a safety harness, attaching it to Doug.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First I thought that a bullet had hit me on the helmet and somehow bounced off.
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He had no helmet , no overcoat, no weapon and no boots.
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I remember having a scorpion on my helmet once.
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In the event of a threat to security, they would grab their helmets and weapons and rush to the trouble spot.
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The helmet is designed to limit the rotational forces affecting the head during an impact and is currently undergoing bench tests.
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There was a sentry in a steel helmet at the door.
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With his other hand he took the helmet off.