I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
give a talk/speech/lecture
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He’s giving a talk on early Roman pottery.
keynote speech/address/lecture etc
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He is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at an awards ceremony.
lecture notes (= notes that a student writes down during a lecture )
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I missed class today; can I borrow your lecture notes?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
inaugural
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Shchapov was only one of the newly appointed professors whose inaugural lecture hinted at a political programme.
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Kostomarov expressed an almost identical antipathy to the state in his inaugural lecture of November 1859.
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The basis of their programme is clearly outlined in an inaugural lecture given by G. H. Bantock at Leicester in 1965.
introductory
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Michael was asked to give the introductory lecture at an engineering conference on the subject of his government review.
public
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He was largely self-taught through wide reading and attendance at public lectures .
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Westinghouse fought back with public lectures and pamphlets.
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Some horticultural staff write excellent articles in journals, and some are in constant demand for public lectures .
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This study of Alberti, for example, started life as a series of public lectures at Columbia University.
■ NOUN
circuit
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Both the Harvard and Caltech groups took their maps on the lecture circuit , giving talks at scattered conferences and universities.
course
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The lecture programme extends from October to April and consists of lecture courses , tutorials and laboratory work totalling approximately 260 hours.
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It is advised by an academic committee specifically concerned with the structure and balance of the lecture course .
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Graduate lecture courses are few at present but may be expected to grow in number in the near future.
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Four lecture courses assessed on course work; two curriculum development exercises.
hall
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Meanwhile, Lepine has walked further along the corridor to the large lecture hall , B-311.
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He looked out into the lecture hall and saw one hundred and seventy pairs of eyes staring back at him.
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And she saw the big staircases leading up to the libraries and the lecture halls .
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The lecture hall was jammed when Stafford deliberately arrived at the very last moment.
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They are quite likely to be moving rapidly from one lecture hall to another in consecutive hours.
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In the excitement as the applause commenced, nobody had noticed Stafford slipping out of the lecture hall .
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She put a table in front of her to see how she would look from the lecture hall .
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Painters and sculptors began looking for inspiration in spontaneity and primitive feeling rather than in the lecture halls of traditional learning.
note
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The next drawer was full of scribbled notes on A4 paper, lecture notes by the look of them.
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The lecture notes are fragmented; a fair number of sentences remain incomplete.
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Borrowing lecture notes is often a complete waste of time because you've missed the impact.
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How can you make the best use of lecture notes ? 1.
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File your notes at least weekly Even your best lecture notes are useless if you can't find them.
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To explain how to take useful lecture notes . 4.
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The best way to do that is through the lecture notes .
room
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There's a bar and a lecture room for guests' use.
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In September 1847, £2,500 was allocated for a combined lecture room , library, reading room and music hall.
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Academics study and analyse films in lecture rooms .
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The Library turned out to be a small lecture room with about twenty hard chairs facing an overhead projector and screen.
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There were laboratories and lecture rooms , a library, a refectory, a ballroom and a theatre.
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School groups can be accommodated in a lecture room where project work or pre-arranged activities can be provided in conjunction with the displays.
series
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In the inevitable lecture series that followed, few would be intrigued by a grossly overweight, fortyish prude.
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The 3-year old Debating Society wanted a high-profile launch for their celebrity lecture series .
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Less energetic members may be interested to hear of two lecture series based in London this October and early next year.
theatre
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There was also a lecture Theatre for people who had packed lunches.
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The centre also has a lecture theatre and processing lab.
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Everybody was assembled in the lecture theatre at the appointed time, but no lecturer had arrived.
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The interior, now a lecture theatre , has stucco decoration from the mid-17C.
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The lecture theatre disgorged its students.
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Kara was sitting on the far side of the lecture theatre , well away from the source of the cry.
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Magician's Road, in the well equipped lecture theatre or in the Museum galleries.
tour
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He founded a school, which he had to finance by writing journalism and giving exhausting lecture tours in the United States.
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In 1886 he came on his last lecture tour , managed by Pond, and at the invitation of Parker.
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He's currently on a nationwide lecture tour called Heal the World.
■ VERB
attend
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To get the most out of lectures , it pays to attend regularly.
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I attended all my lectures and got the best grades.
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I've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice.
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Some time ago I attended a lecture on psychotherapy for people who have a catastrophic illness.
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Since he was unable to attend , the lecture he had prepared was read out to the 1,000 participants on December 14.
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A group of them even inVited one of the prominent leftist student spokesmen to attend the lectures and help direct the questioning.
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Wittgenstein did nothing to soften the difficulties, even discouraging his own students from attending Waismann's lectures .
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The mechanics lost out, and the place became a research institute funded by subscribers who attended lectures .
deliver
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Moxie had early detected Ned smuggling in a bottle of whisky, and had delivered a chastening lecture .
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He has done all but deliver the lecture .
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I must have delivered hundreds of lectures , pep-talks, addresses, speeches, and organized many others.
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Mr Delors was at the London School of Economics, less than a mile away, delivering a lecture .
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In 1962 she had to deliver the Huxley lecture seated and the next year was her last in the field.
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Apart from his lectures at Woolwich, he delivered a course of lectures on the horse at Guy's Hospital in 1817.
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The acolyte Rizla clears his throat to deliver the lecture .
give
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Every moment therefore of his time was dedicated either to preparing or to giving lectures .
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Back in class, Miss Grimhle gave a lecture on racial harmony.
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More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism.
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They are listening to him give a brief lecture on the tour.
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The journey culminated in a Friday night debate where Patten gave a lecture on proper posture.
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He can give no lecture to us on unemployment.
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That does not mean giving up lectures .
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He continued to give lectures , readings and radio talks.
present
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The group presents lectures and workshops once each month.
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I will be invited to present some lectures and some people will write better books and give some better lectures.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deliver a speech/lecture/address etc
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All the staff of the company director delivered a speech.
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But the spectre of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination.
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Fidel Castro delivering speeches in the fields and plazas.
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It wasn't Rudy intention to play the role of the Gipper or deliver an address like Lincoln at Gettysburg.
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Mr Delors was at the London School of Economics, less than a mile away, delivering a lecture.
the tennis/lecture/cabaret etc circuit
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Both the Harvard and Caltech groups took their maps on the lecture circuit , giving talks at scattered conferences and universities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lecture on the causes of the Russian Revolution
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Professor Blair is giving a series of lectures on Einstein's theories.
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She launched into another one of her lectures about why we should always do our homework.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even if she fails to turn up for her next set of lectures there is nothing we can do but not pay her.
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He was largely self-taught through wide reading and attendance at public lectures.
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No scientific lecture is ever given without slides or other visual aids, especially if chemical structures are to be shown.
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The lecture , starting at 9: 30 a. m., is free.
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The first lecture was due to start in half an hour - time enough for what she had to do.
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The old dining-room is now a brass rubbing centre and the drawing-room is used for meetings and lectures.
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These hotels provided musical afternoons, teas, bridge parties, lectures, dances, and sports facilities.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the tennis/lecture/cabaret etc circuit
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Both the Harvard and Caltech groups took their maps on the lecture circuit , giving talks at scattered conferences and universities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After the violence on the field, the manager lectured the team about acceptable standards of behaviour.
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Before his retirement he lectured at the Institut Pasteur.
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For many years Dr Thornton lectured in Economics at University College.
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He was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school.
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She's always lecturing me on bad manners.
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She lectures on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I didn't mean to lecture you, old thing.
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I have never lectured in a finer classroom.
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In 1955 Miss Paterson was invited to lecture and conduct courses for teachers in Montreal and at Yale.
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Pena was roundly criticized by senators who lectured him about public grandstanding and insufficient attention to safety concerns.