I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Earth’s mantle (= parts around the central core )
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the incredibly high temperatures and pressures deep within Earth’s mantle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
assume
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The problem with all these calculations is they assume a homogenous chemical mantle .
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What would happen if this man were to assume the mantle of the most powerful person on earth?
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The rocks began to assume a mantle of translucent ice that dripped in grey icicles from overhangs.
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Because of his brother's hanging, he assumed the mantle of laibon.
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Chatri Sophonpanich, the second son, has now assumed his father's mantle .
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Joey held second spot for two laps before Robert assumed the mantle .
take
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He left no natural successor to take on the Nehru mantle .
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A similar chemical reaction, researchers discovered, could be taking place between the mantle and the core.
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Charles took on Diana's mantle speaking on terminal illness, while she prepared to tread the world stage.
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Against all expectations, it has not taken on the mantle of best pupil in the euro class.
wear
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He wore that mantle well at Rome University until his retirement in 1978.
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Who will wear the lower-tax mantle in the election?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In this view, hot, insulated mantle wells up beneath a supercontinent, causing it to balloon upward.
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Inside this box, the hot, red upwellings of the mantle moved past cold, blue downwellings.
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It extended the web of relationships under the mantle of a few comprehensive terms of relationship connoting close, primordial loyalties.
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Now he is giving himself the chance to be chosen by direct election again, thus gaining a mantle of legitimacy.
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Then another, smaller concentration shows up near the top of the lower mantle , around 745 miles down.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I turned aside to hide the joy that I could feel mantling my cheeks.
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This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone, but is no more than a few metres thick at most.