noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
body stocking
Christmas stocking
fishnet stockings
in your stockinged/stocking feet (= not wearing shoes )
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She stood 5ft 6 inches tall in her stockinged feet.
stocking filler
stocking mask
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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She suggests you cheat your hormones by including the element of surprise - black stockings or a weekend away, for example.
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He seemed to be wearing black silk stockings .
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A white petticoat, black stockings and white drawers lay over outer clothes.
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She was wearing a blue dress with big puffy sleeves and long black stockings .
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A woman in her mid forties was dragged into bushes by a man wearing a black stocking mask.
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Her left leg was clad in one of her black lisle stockings .
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She was wearing a navy blue duffel coat with a tartan-lined hood, black stockings and pointed shoes with very high heels.
white
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Her skinny legs and swollen ankles, covered with white stockings , rest unnaturally on the footrests of her chair.
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All the time Midnight was silently pulling on his white stockings and buckling his shoes.
■ NOUN
body
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It would not be true nudity, he assured her; she would wear a body stocking .
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If he had been wearing a red and blue body stocking Rachel would have thought it was Spiderman.
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Had everyone fooled for a time, but she was wearing a body stocking .
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Today they were busy removing the bandage body stocking that had been used to help the wing to heal.
density
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The opposite is true for Powys where stocking densities are increasing more and more rapidly.
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It is also the statement of forage area to calculate stocking density .
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The provision would allow payments to be made to farmers for maintaining low stocking densities for conservation requirements.
filler
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The Pals pay tribute to the passing of the Shack and 11 more lovelies can be found inside this classic stocking filler .
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This is the perfect stocking filler .
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But there's no doubt as to the best stocking filler this Christmas - at least, for Apple Macintosh users.
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Algarde's Power Centre is well-designed and compact - a good stocking filler .
fillers
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Disc boxes and mouse mats are good stocking fillers , but what about something with a bit of class?
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Here's a list of this year's best video stocking fillers .
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Makers Crystal Clear also make a wide range of filter matting, carbon, tonic salts and other products for stocking fillers .
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Interpet Plantastics and Supernaturals - stocking fillers from to.
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They're a great idea for stocking fillers .
fishnet
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White kicked off her shoes and the audience howled, for under her fishnet stockings were toes stuck with corn plasters.
level
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If I build a trickle filter, holding approximately 10 gallons, will I be able to increase my stocking level ?
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It is not good practice to use extra filter capacity to increase stocking levels in the main tank.
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Can I restrict myself to low stocking levels - resisting temptation?
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Please could you recommend some suitable species and stocking levels ?
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Declines in stocking levels can also have disastrous consequences if combined with tourist use.
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The life of activated carbon is limited - factors like gallonage and stocking levels affecting it.
mask
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A woman in her mid forties was dragged into bushes by a man wearing a black stocking mask .
rate
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This is a maximum stocking rate .
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Heavy use of fertilisers and high stocking rates had maintained a tight-cropped monoculture of little interest to wildlife.
silk
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Each garland has a steel framework which is wrapped with silk stockings before being lined, inside and out, with hessian.
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He seemed to be wearing black silk stockings .
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No diamonds, no chandeliers, no party frocks and silk stockings , no glitz, no strains of smooching Sinatra.
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I had seen silk stockings at celebrations, but they were nothing compared to nylon.
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Jay would nod and reply, make coffee, light cigarettes and smile at her silk stocking fantasy.
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Each wore a blue sash at hip level, a matching bonnet, silk stockings and black shoes with a buckle.
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It was useless to try to hoard silk stockings , stated the women's magazines.
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Two promoted silk stockings and Florence Stack appeared in newspaper advertisements praising Tokalon beauty products.
stitch
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Above we have a neat little cable pattern that is useful as a simple interruption of stocking stitch along a complete garment.
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Knit a hem in the usual way in stocking stitch ending with the carriage at the right.
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If a warm fabric is needed, it is usually better to use narrow stripes of stocking stitch separating bands of weaving.
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If you have the body of a sweater in cable strips you might leave the sleeves in stocking stitch .
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Knit two rows of stocking stitch between transfers.
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First choose a pattern that is the design you want and in plain stocking stitch .
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Transfer alternate stitches and knit two rows of stocking stitch throughout, always transferring in the same direction.
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You will find that you have cables between six plain stocking stitch strips.
■ VERB
knit
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Transfer alternate stitches and knit two rows of stocking stitch throughout, always transferring in the same direction.
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By medium thickness, I mean a yarn that knits stocking stitch at tension four to six on your machine.
wear
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It would not be true nudity, he assured her; she would wear a body stocking .
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He seemed to be wearing black silk stockings .
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Rainbow says that if she has to wear tights or stockings , we might as well forget the whole damned thing.
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Although it is summer, she is wearing magenta stockings and black shoes with delicate straps.
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A woman in her mid forties was dragged into bushes by a man wearing a black stocking mask.
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Amid the activities of people taking pictures, I also saw for the first time a woman wearing nylon stockings .
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She wore no stockings , and her arms were bare.
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She was wearing brightly colored stockings and shoes of the same color.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
surgical stocking/collar etc
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Paramedics treated the driver of the second car for shock and applied a surgical collar to the policeman.
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This time we had the welcome addition of a sheepskin backrest, an inflatable neck support and a selection of surgical collars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Flossie's lead was now hopelessly tangled round Dotty's wrinkled stockings.
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Her skinny legs and swollen ankles, covered with white stockings, rest unnaturally on the footrests of her chair.
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Then a bit later when I was just nodding off he says, Seamed stockings.
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There was no listing for stockings on the store directory.
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To him, a schoolmistress was a crusty Old Maid in a liberty bodice and lisle stockings.
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Zena pulled on another stocking and heard his footsteps echoing away up the corridor.