noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dot on the horizon
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The plane was just a dot on the horizon .
broaden...horizons (= learn, experience, or attempt new things )
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I’d like to work abroad to broaden my horizons .
looming on the horizon
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An economic crisis is looming on the horizon .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
distant
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The same summer ... I am looking down on the world, but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons .
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Lassen on the distant horizon , and with the spiked rim of Castle Crags below to the nearby south.
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The village faces west to a distant horizon formed by Skye and the Torridon mountains, a glorious prospect.
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Then go outside and pick out an object, such as a large tree or building, on the distant horizon .
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The lone cyclist, the donkey rider heading for a distant horizon: wherever they are going the eye can not follow.
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The wind was blowing free, and if there were any fences they must have been beyond the distant horizon .
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I stormed across the wet barren sands towards the thin line of sea on the distant horizon .
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The undulating East Anglian landscape stretched towards a not distant horizon .
eastern
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The brilliant morning sun had just burst into sight, setting the eastern horizon aglow.
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By the time they had reached it, a thin bow of unbearable incandescence had thrust itself above the eastern horizon .
far
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He could see the flashes on the far horizon beyond the city.
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There, her eyes will always be glued to the far horizon .
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A wall of white mountains fills the far horizon .
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A gentle sun now emerged, the sea became blue, and low dune-shaped hills appeared on the far horizon .
infinite
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Player A's strategy is linear in z for both the finite and the infinite horizon models.
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Thus, they may be thought of as sources of financing with an infinite time horizon .
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The presence of noise also allows agents to create temporary reputations in infinite horizon games.
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We argue that for any positive discount rate reputation effects will be temporary in infinite horizon games.
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As the infinite time horizon case is simpler to treat we begin with this.
low
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Beyond them, beyond this enclosure, the lush countryside meanders to its low horizon .
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For weeks now the planet Mars has been seen, a hand's breadth above the low horizon .
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Their lower horizons may show some gleying.
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The red ball of the late afternoon sun was low on the horizon .
new
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Now new horizons were being presented.
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We live with an extraordinary sense of new horizons , of adventure, of challenge.
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This fresh ecumenical contact and its opening of new horizons has by no means been restricted to the meeting of Christians with Christians.
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He is the exemplary modernizing figure whose works are pompously taught as avant-garde texts that open new horizons for Arab youths.
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It speaks to us, opening up new horizons .
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All kinds of new horizons opened up.
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Thinking of new horizons , maybe?
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Others long for the new horizons , the flexibility and choice it will give them.
western
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Suddenly its noise was distinct and loud like a tractor coming over the western horizon .
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The mountains, luminous and romantic, lay all across the western horizon .
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Everything - wind, sand and stray paper bags, disappeared over that western horizon .
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From the look of the western horizon , half the continent could have been on fire.
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A low, scudding cloudbank was coming off the western horizon , purple with unshed rain.
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Over east the yellow sun brimmed while along the western horizon the purple lip of night still clung.
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My father turned Rawalpindi towards the darkening western horizon and increased to full speed.
wide
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A feeling of wide horizons - open possibilities - this is the atmosphere we need to do work of this kind.
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Her eyes were wide as new horizons .
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There were no doubts or misgivings about the move from my chosen field of journalism to the wider horizons of radio broadcasting.
■ NOUN
event
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At no stage does the outer surface of the object go inside the event horizon .
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An event horizon is not in itself a structure.
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For external observers this surface constitutes what is called an event horizon .
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The critical point, where gravity becomes so strong that escape is impossible, is called the event horizon .
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The epoch of blue shift is usually confined to the time when the object is still inside the event horizon .
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So the paths of light rays in the event horizon had always to be moving parallel to, or away from, each other.
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Its boundary is called the event horizon .
time
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Therefore a multi-year time horizon budget needs to be implemented.
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With that kind of time horizon , how can I know how much my planning contributed to the outcome?
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They both allow people to choose their own time horizons , which can be anything from two to 25 years.
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The time horizon is already close and getting closer.
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A time horizon of 5-10 years.
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Thus, they may be thought of as sources of financing with an infinite time horizon .
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One - three months seems about the right time horizon for raising the majority of deposits.
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The further up the line you get, the longer your time horizon becomes.
■ VERB
appear
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They drove up towards the countryside, trees and fields appearing on the horizon .
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D., there began to appear on the Roman horizon disturbing signs of cultural decline and moral decay.
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However a glimmer of hope has appeared on the horizon .
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Something slightly less flat than the flatness surrounding it appeared on the horizon .
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Nevertheless, new problems of access were appearing on the horizon , as were issues of cost containment.
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Two marker posts with winking lights had appeared on the horizon , and the bus was steering between them.
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Ahead the lights of a great city appear on the horizon .
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Another little dark cloud had appeared on the horizon of her summer.
broaden
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Their first choice is not always available but the week should achieve the aim of broadening their horizons and their experience.
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But she must broaden her horizons .
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A few years in Leeds will broaden her horizons , even if she doesn't find a husband.
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Perhaps you're the one who needs to broaden your horizons .
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For when one's mind broadens its horizons , one attains contentment, peace and, ultimately, happiness.
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Though it has made its name as a mainframe software house, Compuware is keen to broaden its horizons .
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Aldous Huxley broadened her horizons somewhat.
cloud
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The failure of the talks held in Geneva at the end of September has clouded the horizon and increased tensions.
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New equipment and processes would never be tested in manufacturing environments; new strategies and theories would seldom cloud managerial horizons .
disappear
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Everything - wind, sand and stray paper bags, disappeared over that western horizon .
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The fog had disappeared from the horizon and then little by little from the whole sky.
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The presumed answer is that the golden age has long since disappeared below the horizon of memory.
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Their source of money was about to disappear over the horizon .
expand
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You might have some fun, make new friends, expand your own personal horizons .
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Art escaped his kin to expand his horizons , so he knows exactly what drove Mark away.
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His mission in life is to expand the horizons of those around him.
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And it will expand her horizons .
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This resistance can only be overcome as you gently persuade and cajole subordinates to expand their horizons .
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Like millions of other women around the world, she has learned that work outside the home has expanded her horizons .
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Try to find a copy if you are considering expanding your horizons .
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Another possible use of video in a training programme is to trigger new ideas and expand trainees' horizons .
loom
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Sadly, when I was there war was not the only dark cloud looming on the horizon .
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Meanwhile, the absolute deadline of June 30, 1982, loomed on the horizon .
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The two disputes he mentioned pale in comparison with others looming on the horizon .
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Additionally, grain merchandisers bought corn futures this morning, suggesting additional sales could loom on the horizon , traders said.
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Another kind of hazard was already looming on the horizon for the weaker peasant elements.
open
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It speaks to us, opening up new horizons .
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He is the exemplary modernizing figure whose works are pompously taught as avant-garde texts that open new horizons for Arab youths.
scan
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He scanned the horizon and saw on the edge of the sky the familiar yellowish stain.
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It is possible to scan a horizon and count 10 species.
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Cornelius stood up, drew back his hair and scanned the horizon .
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I scan the grey horizon as the water rises.
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They eagerly scanned the horizon where they had last seen the car disappear.
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Sometimes in the evenings Kalchu would sit outside under the eaves, scanning the horizon , willing the sky to change.
stretch
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A streak of white, like a slow-worm, stretched itself along the horizon .
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The mountains were endless, great aries of peaks any of the not even named, stretching to the horizons .
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Rank on rank they stretched to the horizon , their reflections shimmering towards us on a blue mirror.
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Luminous rays stretching downward toward the horizon like the long glinting fingers of myriad hands.
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Concrete runways stretched to the horizon .
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The Galaxy was high in the sky and its misty lens shape stretched lazily from horizon to horizon.
widen
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For those who wished to widen their horizons there were educational influences outside the classroom.
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If you add keyboard skills, you could widen these horizons .
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As we move towards the end of the millennium the Association is increasingly widening its horizons .
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I really do see this age as a time to widen horizons .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A blue screen blocks the horizon .
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An hour and there was a speck of yellow on the horizon as tiny as an aphid.
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His vision was riveted to one vanishing point on a particular horizon , and that was the story of avant-garde art.
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Like millions of other women around the world, she has learned that work outside the home has expanded her horizons.
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The horizon will be strangely close because of the small radius of the body, only a few kilometers.
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The fliers knew there was a spoiler on the horizon , knew that delay might open a window of opportunity for others.
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The three cave occupations spanned some 100,000 years with ten distinct cultural horizons.
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Their hearts might be heavy, but there's a glint on the horizon , a new sun rising.