adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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These lent brilliance to the footwork which became more intricate and thus more interesting.
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Vertebrates have a much more intricate and sensitive morphology.
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Bonds also have more intricate cash flow patterns than money market securities, which typically involve just a single payment at maturity.
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There is another round wooden box on the shelf, though the wood is darker and the design more intricate .
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Yet the field of inter-relationships is much larger and more intricate .
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As are our skills at arranging the most intricate forms of financing.
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I had so much hair and it was so heavy and pliable that I wore it in the most intricate ways.
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It is ironic that often the most severe weather conditions can produce some of the most intricate and fragile sights.
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In the most intricate examples, the fore-edge is fanned both ways and a double picture is secured.
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The brain and the nervous system take the greatest strain of all and the most intricate functions are progressively damaged.
■ NOUN
network
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On these rest great palaces, temples and storehouses forming an intricate network of canals.
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A good defense lawyer has an intricate network .
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The Everglades was carved into sections by an intricate network of canals and levees - 1,400 miles in all.
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Miniature boats rigged with burlap sails ply intricate networks of rivers and canals.
pattern
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Next, long white streamers tied into an intricate pattern in the centre were handed to various women standing in the circle.
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At Motown, electric guitars, sometimes as many as four, were locked in intricate patterns .
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These provide an intricate pattern of interconnected and convoluted water bodies which have considerable ecological interest and value.
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They mechanically weave into intricate patterns , twirling their 10-pound rifles with the swiftness of a baton.
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Enriching texture Many people mistake pattern for texture, yet intricate patterns are often found on smooth, tranquil surfaces.
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One look at the intricate pattern was enough to tell her she could follow it with no trouble at all.
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The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age.
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They stayed much more closely together, weaving intricate patterns round each other.
system
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The earnings of metal miners are notoriously difficult to estimate because intricate systems of payment by results produced wide fluctuations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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intricate patterns of coloured marble
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a pair of intricate beaded earrings
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Lasers are used to cut intricate designs in wood.
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the intricate workings of a watch
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The farmers use an intricate system of drainage canals.