I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a comedy star (= a very famous comedy actor or actress )
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The main role in the film is played by comedy star Whoopi Goldberg.
a distant planet/galaxy/star
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They saw telescope images of the distant planet Neptune.
a film actor/star
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John Voight, the American film star, is perhaps best known for his Oscar winning performance in 'Midnight Cowboy'.
a film stars/features sb
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The film starred Brad Pitt.
a movie star
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She looked like a movie star.
a movie stars/features sb
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a movie starring Will Smith
a star rating (= a number of star symbols that shows a level of quality etc )
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Each restaurant is given a star rating.
a star witness (= an important witness who says things that help one side a lot )
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The judge ruled that the state’s star witness had lied on the stand.
a starring role (= one of the most important roles )
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She was offered the starring role in a new British stage comedy.
falling star
film star
five star general
morning star
movie star
navigate by the stars
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Early explorers used to navigate by the stars .
Pole Star
pop star
rising star
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Francesca was a rising star in the cinema.
shooting star
star anise
star chamber
star in a film (= be one of the main characters in a film )
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Robert Mitchum starred in a film called 'River of No Return' with Marilyn Monroe.
star in a movie (= play one of the main characters )
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Depp will star in director Tim Burton’s next movie.
star jump
Star of David
star potential (= the potential to be a star in music, films etc )
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The woman who spotted Kate’s star potential was Sarah Doukas.
star pupil (= a very good one )
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a star pupil
star sign
star turn
star vehicle
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MGM made the film as a star vehicle for Brando.
Stars and Stripes, the
the star attraction (= someone or something that many people want to see )
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The former President was the star attraction of the conference.
the star of the show
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Very quickly, Williams became the star of the show.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The developers have tried to make it as realistic as possible and the game includes some of the sport's biggest stars .
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Sure, sure, I know the networks like to spread their big stars all over the prime-time lot.
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He was not a big star at the time and it was just a good song.
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Who will be the biggest star of the Olympics?
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There was a big gold star on the door.
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Not like a big star at all.
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His name and his music opened the new National Bowl, promoted now as a major venue for big rock stars .
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They wanted maybe a big star .
bright
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A spectrograph measures how bright a star is at any given wavelength.
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Even as it was, the glare of the Earth, filling half the sky, drowned all but the brighter stars .
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Most of the brighter stars plotted are of the second magnitude, while the fainter ones are of the fourth.
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Discovered in the early 1960s, quasars at first seemed to be small, bright stars .
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Then it erupted in a shower of cold, bright stars , brilliant with a sharp, astonishing, searing pain.
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Also in the line of the rings was the bright star of Titan, and the fainter sparks of the other moons.
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Capella is the sixth brightest star in the sky.
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Away from the haze and lights of the city, bright stars fill the spectacularly clear sky.
lucky
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I have sent thank-you cards to all my lucky stars by first-class post.
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
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The Bruins this morning are thanking their lucky stars for goaltender Bill Ranford.
other
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With other semi-regular stars , the periods are so ill-defined as to be barely recognizable, and sometimes the fluctuations become random.
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No other stars are seen close to the radio position.
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And Lancashire's other pace star , Phil DeFreitas, also has reason to catch the Essex captain's eye.
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Her appeal to all generations was now something that separated her from almost any other pop star of her generation.
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We know of other stars whose brightness changes periodically, over a timespan of hours, weeks or years.
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Such weak interactions underlie the processes that fuel the Sun and other stars .
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Pioneering producer Hal Roach also launched a host of other silent film stars including Harold Lloyd.
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He determined the amount of neutral gas lying in front of Beta Canis Majoris and in front of 10 other stars in a similar direction.
pop
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He's leaving, apparently, to become a pop star , and why not?
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So goes life for an aspiring teen-age pop star who still wants to play baseball in his senior year of high school.
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Ever fancied recreating the comedy deaths of pop stars ?
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He had never intended the group to become pop stars - and Rotten's increasingly self-important behaviour was a worry.
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Today researchers reveal who pop stars look up to, who they hate and how in touch with reality they are.
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But by far the most popular answers for boys and girls respectively were footballer and pop star .
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I can't understand why people want to be pop stars .
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She really is an inspiration-and a pop star in the making.
rising
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In part two: Cancer lifeline ... the new drug that could stop a killer spreading. Rising star .
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His name was Mahmoud el Zaki and he was one of the Parquet's rising stars .
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A chance to spot the rising stars of the sport.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, he is the youngest member of the Cabinet and its fastest rising star .
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His main rival at the Express was another young rising star , Kelvin Mackenzie, who handled news.
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And he will be pleasantly surprised to see that only three horses line up against his rising star .
rock
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People in the rear craned to get a glimpse of the legendary rock star .
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Biggest Surprise: The continuing transformation of Courtney Love from rock star grunge to classic elegance.
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And Rod, infamous for his years of rock star excess, insisted he had no worries about Ruby going into showbiz.
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Are movies stars aping rock stars?
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I mean, look at all the rock stars dying on heroin.
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Adolescent fans crowd around him, begging for autographs as if he were a rock star .
young
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The young stars played sixteen-year-old lovers.
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She ran off with a younger film star .
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It didn't deter many of Hollywood's young stars in those days of silent movies from using drugs.
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Yet the solar radiation from the sun, then a faint, young star , was approximately 30 percent less.
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Academicians and up and coming young stars were offered honoured commissions for which they were well paid.
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She was interested in promoting the careers of young stars .
■ NOUN
film
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A millionaires' row for the aristocracy, film stars and the kings of international business empires.
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Griffith and Mack Sennett both filmed in the area while silent film star Tom Mix was an early developer.
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It will include an interview with film star Stewart Granger with whom Roma once appeared in a play on Broadway.
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They were all a bunch of spoiled, badly behaved film stars and he had no patience with any of them.
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The pornographic film star Ilona Staller, alias La Cicciolina, has withdrawn from the lists, pleading marital pressure and pregnancy.
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Hedy Lamarr, the film star who was billed as the most beautiful woman in the world, has died aged 86.
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She ran off with a younger film star .
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Nigel wondered if any film star would be discerning enough to employ him if he applied for a chauffeur's job.
football
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No one knew whether the civil jury would hold the former football star liable for two brutal murders.
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And the police clearly fed the flames by publicly announcing they were investigating the football stars .
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And he had no shortage of women, did he? Football stars are well supplied with female groupies.
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Jurors took less than a half-hour Thursday to clear professional football star Warren Moon of assaulting his wife.
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He was a football star in college.
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In addition to excelling academically, Mr Packard was a football star and big man around campus.
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Though football star Dan Marino and swimsuit models were on hand, it was the Hansons who were mobbed.
morning
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The Germanic cavalry often had morning stars made entirely of iron.
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The stars were leaving the sky; even the lingering morning star was dim.
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The Enlightenment was the morning star of modernity.
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The morning star has withdrawn behind the curtain of light to wait for its chance to shine again tomorrow.
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The planet they call the evening star , the morning star.
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Or maybe something like the morning star that still hung in the dawning sky.
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Venus and Jupiter, year in and year out, Contend for the crown Of morning star and of evening star.
movie
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Will Hollywood movie stars leave all the on-screen action to their stunt men?
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He wasn't just an actor or even just a movie star .
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There was the disastrous decision to draft future movie star Brian Bosworth.
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Oh yes, and Hollywood, movie stars , freeways, Baywatch and smog.
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Walker had been consuming news space like a movie star in a fever of insecurity.
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This face belongs to a great movie star , although you don't know it yet.
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Flashbulbs fired like movie stars were coming.
neutron
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This is about a factor of 3 smaller than current best estimates of the neutron star radius.
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Despite such small size, a neutron star can contain as much mass as 500, 000 Earthsized planets.
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They were therefore called neutron stars .
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It is also too large a mass to be a neutron star .
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In this context, a neutron star is effectively a single atomic nucleus.
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It is highly relevant to ask what values have been measured for neutron star masses; do they fall in with expectation?
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In the standard formation model, millisecond pulsars are formed when a neutron star accretes matter from an evolving companion.
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Another such state is a neutron star .
■ VERB
become
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He's leaving, apparently, to become a pop star , and why not?
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She then became a star basketball player in high school, taking her team to the state championship.
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While others had comparatively modest ambitions, her heart was set on becoming a star .
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Only gradually did it dawn on me that I would never become a star .
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Fortunately for us both, Dulcie had become a star both in theatre and films.
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She went on to become a star of nightclubs, films and recordings.
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Zoe Nesbitt was a top class rider who dreamed of becoming an equestrian star .
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The rhythm Section became the stars .
rise
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Then, Stich was a rising star , a young man of boundless potential.
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She would have what every rising star needs: a cause.
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One of the 21st century's rising stars is in Tucson today to play the piano.
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If it is because of your stellar performance, perhaps the favoritism indicates that you are a rising star in the organization.
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At 39, Brian Sabean is clearly the rising star in the organization.
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He has been in politics, but there he was not a rising star , either.
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Has not the dollar become the rising star of global currency markets in 1996 and early 1997?
shoot
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Second, shooting stars are not stars.
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Sometimes, you could go out and see the headlights like shooting stars .
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Most burn up harmlessly, as shooting stars .
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Many see their first shooting star , and with that, drift off to never-never land.
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We are all familiar with shooting stars .
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I remember seeing shooting stars , and how bright they were.
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She sees a shooting star and is heartened by whatever hope it might portend, but before long she is crying again.
thank
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
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The Bruins this morning are thanking their lucky stars for goaltender Bill Ranford.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be born under a lucky/unlucky star
give sb top/star billing
guiding light/hand/star
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And that is what Aeneas's young son did under the guiding hand of Alecto.
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Eddie was his hero, his guiding light.
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Father Peter, its guiding light, was also its provider of funds and sustenance.
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That will be the guiding light of the next Labour government.
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To followers, he is more than just a guiding light - he is the Messiah.
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Under Mr Yarrow's guiding hand, the reputation of the school was untarnished, these five long years.
play/star/appear etc opposite sb
reach for the stars
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Jungle Boy and City Girl reach for the stars but it can't last, can it?
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The Lord clearly despises the practice of reaching for the stars instead of turning to him.
thank your lucky stars
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Thank your lucky stars the boy wasn't seriously hurt.
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
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The Bruins this morning are thanking their lucky stars for goaltender Bill Ranford.
the Pole Star
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'Blair Witch' star Heather Donahue has landed a new role in a college reunion film called 'Seven and a Match'.
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After college, Weiss became a star in sports journalism.
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Eddie Murphy is one of the most successful stars in Hollywood.
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Former tennis star Bj"rn Borg also attended the reception.
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His first movie made him a star .
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Hollings' latest movie role could make her a big star .
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If he becomes a big TV star , we'll probably never hear from him again.
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James Caan was a big star in the '70s.
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John Cusack is one of my favourite movie stars.
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Peter Fonda is best known as the star of 'Easy Rider' and other 1960s biker films.
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She was once married to a well-known football star .
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Sonya's the class star .
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The stars are beautiful tonight.
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The flag's fifty stars represent the fifty states.
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They're all strong players, but Laura's undoubtedly the star of the team.
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Woodward continues to be the Post's star reporter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A., Aragon, much like a movie star , was mobbed wherever he went.
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Fenster rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
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If she had stayed, all would have been different; it wasn't in her stars to stay.
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Light and darkness, for example, are described before the sun, moon and stars.
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They know the law of gravity that rules planets and stars and the universe at large.
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When the dark edge of the satellite passed across a star , it dimmed briefly before the moment of eclipse.
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With the flash of a million stars exploding, his brain registered its outrage as he was viciously felled.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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Besides producing, Moore also stars in one of the segments.
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Jackie Cooper also starred as her perplexed boyfriend.
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Shelley Winters also stars in this underrated thriller, tautly directed by Robert Wise.
as
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Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson star as two journalists who fall in love with the help of spaghetti carbonara.
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Andy Garcia stars as Jimmy the Saint, so called because he studied for the cloth before becoming a hood.
in
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Bosses have yet to decide which show the family will star in , but Coronation Street and Emmerdale are favourites.
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But the 25-year-old flyer made the most of his come-back chance when he starred in last weekend's win at Derby.
■ NOUN
actor
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Man: Richard Burton apart, you starred with many leading actors - who has impressed you the most?
film
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Both later adapted it into a film , starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, and a television series.
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He was partners in a company that made, and still distributes, corporate training films written and starring John Cleese.
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His story was told in Costa-Gavras's 1982 film Missing, which starred Jack Lemmon.
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There was an obliging clip from the awful-looking film Extreme Measures starring guest Hugh Grant.
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The film , starring Albert Finney, contains one of the most deliciously bawdy food seductions ever.
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But the colliery band played on-providing the story behind the critically acclaimed film Brassed Off starring Ewan MacGregor.
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The lake alone, focus of a new film starring Ted Danson, has a singular mystique.
movie
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It will be replaced by adventure movies starring Hollywood idols including Tom Cruise.
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The truth is, no other cemetery on the face of the earth has as many dead movie stars as Hollywood Memorial.
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In the movie Mark Wahlberg stars as Leo.
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Set in 1936, the movie stars Mikhalkov himself as a revered Bolshevik and Ingeborga Dapkounaite as his wife.
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Though movie stars and corporate moguls have run up prices in beach-front resorts recently, expect prices overall to stabilize.
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Name the movie series that starred Leslie Nielsen as Detective Drebin. 5.
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The 10-day festival is turning into a virtual showcase for movie stars making their debuts as filmmakers.
player
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Is there any other less well known, former Leeds players , starring for other clubs nowadays out there?
rock
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Interesting rock stars , uninspiring rock musicians.
role
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Shrimp takes a starring role on the menu at just about every restaurant in town.
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Carl Lumbly stars in the title role .
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In the rematch, the Packers may learn that Kevin Williams is more than willing to play a starring role .
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But the jitters and anxieties usually associated with a starring role in a new play are nowhere to be seen.
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I suggested to Miller how he could play a starring role .
s
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Although the 200 is her favorite, the 100 could lead to the birth of a new U. S . star .
series
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They claimed the first Tardis, as used in the 1963 series starring William Hartnell, collapsed 16 years ago.
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Name the movie series that starred Leslie Nielsen as Detective Drebin. 5.
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The tales of the vessel's outrageous life on the coastal trade became a highly-successful series starring Roddy McMillan and John Grieve.
show
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Bosses have yet to decide which show the family will star in, but Coronation Street and Emmerdale are favourites.
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The show stars hunky Kevin Sorbo as the son of Zeus.
■ VERB
rise
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Some, such as the CellNet, look like rising stars .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
give sb top/star billing
guiding light/hand/star
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And that is what Aeneas's young son did under the guiding hand of Alecto.
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Eddie was his hero, his guiding light.
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Father Peter, its guiding light, was also its provider of funds and sustenance.
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That will be the guiding light of the next Labour government.
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To followers, he is more than just a guiding light - he is the Messiah.
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Under Mr Yarrow's guiding hand, the reputation of the school was untarnished, these five long years.
play/star/appear etc opposite sb
the Pole Star
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Attenborough's 1987 "Cry Freedom" starred Denzel Washington.
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Danny Aiello stars in this comedy about New York's first big lottery winner.
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Director Jane Campion's latest film, which stars Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel, was one of the highlights of the New York Film Festival.
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Hollywood heart-throb Keanu Reeves is set to star in a true story based on a newspaper article from the Times.
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Silverman also starred in "Brighton Beach Memoirs."
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The film stars Patricia Arquette and is directed by Steven Brill.
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The most important points have been starred.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Andy Vaughan starred for Wilmslow reaching an unbeaten 59 off only 42 deliveries.
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Doyle's explosive shot starred the side window.
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M.D. In sixty-four stage productions, so far - starring in twenty-six of them in London.
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Paul Winfield and Kevin Hooks also star .