noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a plank of wood (= a long thin flat piece )
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The shed was constructed from some old planks of wood.
(as) thick as two short planks (= very stupid )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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Another central plank in this revisionist argument was that there was no such thing as the popular will.
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Cracking down on illegal immigration was a central campaign plank .
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The central plank of the new policy was rural development.
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Wilson had made National Self-Determination the central plank of his 1916 election campaign for a second term in office.
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The plan was the central plank of the Government's strategy to save 18,500 post offices around Britain.
main
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The main plank of a campaign he hopes will overturn the Conservative's slender 1,400 majority in the seat.
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Unionists did though make war service a main plank of their electioneering whenever they had the chance.
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One of the main planks of the anti-airfield platform was, as usual, aircraft noise.
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Two surveys whose findings are published today show that many voters are unsure about some main planks of Government policy.
major
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These form the major planks in our future strategy.
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But the major plank of the defence was provided by the remarkable lady journalist Suzanne Cronjé.
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Between them the two major planks of the strategy had yielded £5,264,500.
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The whole initiative is a major plank in a beefy relaunch of Picture Lions, timed for May.
republican
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Pete Wilson is a naif who had no idea anybody would care what he had to say about the Republican anti-abortion plank ?
wooden
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Facing him across the bleached wooden plank , Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
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The water was above his ankles, flowing over the wooden plank he slept on.
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Stripped or new brick makes a good kitchen background, so does tongue-and-groove wood panelling or panelling of wide wooden planks .
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But the ceiling is made of rough wooden planks and the floor of mud.
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There were wooden planks beneath them which seemed to lie against their bones.
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Presently he was there, he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge.
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A stevedore negligently dropped a wooden plank into the hold of the ship.
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I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold.
■ NOUN
floor
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The surviving floors , though, were of clay, which might imply that there had once been plank floors above them.
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It was almost entirely filled by its sole piece of furniture-a straw mattress raised above the plank floor on a platform.
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Mushrooms bounced about the plank floor .
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Alternatively the cleanliness of the pit base has been viewed as an indication that the pit had plank floors at ground level.
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Some certainly did have plank floors in the pit base.
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The chambers of the pit were lined with stones with a plank floor and plank sides.
platform
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The convention could include a battle over whether to retain the platform plank calling for a constitutional ban on abortion.
■ VERB
make
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But the ceiling is made of rough wooden planks and the floor of mud.
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She took off her muff and laid it down on the rough table made of planks and bricks.
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She climbed up on to the rickety driving platform, which had been made by tying a plank across the cab.
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At the foot of the steps is a shack made of bamboo and planks of wood.
walk
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Both are completely geared to novices, with plenty of other distractions if walking the plank doesn't suit.
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Keel-hauling, walking the plank , that sort of thing.
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The survivors had to jump from their sinking ship or walk on wobbling planks in order to be taken aboard.
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The signal was for Mr Amato, 61, to walk the plank .
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I'd like to make him walk his rotten plank .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
walk the plank
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Both are completely geared to novices, with plenty of other distractions if walking the plank doesn't suit.
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Keel-hauling, walking the plank, that sort of thing.
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The signal was for Mr Amato, 61, to walk the plank.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cracking down on illegal immigration was one of the state Republicans' major campaign planks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another central plank in this revisionist argument was that there was no such thing as the popular will.
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Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank .
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Even so, much activity can be encouraged with improvised equipment such as planks, boxes, tyres and barrels.
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Facing him across the bleached wooden plank , Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
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Four fingers were thrust, gripping, through a gap between the planks of the door.
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That plank also opposes the use of public funds for abortion and organizations that advocate abortion.
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The Kansas senator indicated a willingness to make minor changes in the anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform.
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Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.