I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a school uniform
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He was still wearing his school uniform.
dress uniform
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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His handclasp was cold; his black uniform befitting the poisonous beetle that he was.
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She is a skinny brown woman in the black uniform of the kitchen help.
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The movement survived as the National Fascists for three years, with a black shirt uniform .
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They wore black uniforms with visored caps.
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Tall, smart women strutting in their black uniforms and leather boots.
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I stop this man in a black uniform and ask him where it is, and he shows me.
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The Raiders waited two years before seeing Ismail in a silver-and-\#black uniform .
blue
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She looks like a nurse in her blue uniform and her scarf over her head.
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Brosz said of the sea of blue and white uniforms .
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The blue uniforms of policemen had appeared and marksmen had fanned out, hunting for good positions to aim from.
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Two unarmed security guards in faded blue uniforms stand erect at the entrance to Montclair Prep in Van Nuys.
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A girl in light blue uniform waves her finger at me.
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The girls are dressed alike, in dark blue uniforms with white collars and black pinafores.
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Officials in their variety of blue uniforms hurried to and fro on urgent business.
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The marshals will appear in their blue uniforms with a sidearm-no rifles or anything like that.
dark
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From that day the Carroburg Greatswords have worn dark red uniforms .
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The kids in their dark uniforms and heavy black leather school backpacks march off to school under fragile white-pink blossoms.
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Guards in dark uniforms and high black boots hurried us along.
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The girls are dressed alike, in dark blue uniforms with white collars and black pinafores.
green
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Row upon row they seemed to march, reminding Lucy of soldiers dressed in Prussian green uniforms .
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A man riding a bicycle stopped to ask what was the idea of all the green uniforms .
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There were four of them, dressed in the pale green uniforms of the Ebert household.
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We waited to have our visas minutely examined by security police with green uniforms and humorless expressions.
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Preparations were made to re-equip the force with green uniforms .
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The staff, easily recognizable by their distinctive light green uniforms were well in evidence.
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He could see a wall of green uniforms surrounding it.
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This Stirlander bowmen wears a green and yellow uniform .
grey
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This archer wears a white smock over a grey uniform with distinguishing red ribbons and plume.
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It was a desk cop, a woman in a grey uniform , wearing a headset.
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Dressed in the dull grey uniform of her trade, no one would have given her a second look.
khaki
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Harvey was dressed in a khaki uniform with colonel's insignia on the collar.
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He wears an army-type khaki uniform , a gun swung over his shoulder.
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Two pairs of black policemen in starched khaki uniforms were there to discourage the pickpockets if possible, arrest them if necessary.
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More than 2, 000 students still wear khaki uniforms to class, though the cadet corps now is coeducational.
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Ponchos, like the one he'd used as protection on the roof, covered their khaki uniforms .
military
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To produce a sail he had ripped apart his military uniform .
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Included are some paintings in which he used nineteenth-century military uniforms .
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The trendies of Carnaby Street flounced around in military uniforms , sporting flowers of peace where medals once had hung.
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In another, he sports a military uniform while reading a book.
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He had dressed that morning in his civilian clothes, reckoning that military uniform was unsuitable for the work of the day.
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Another plant which made military uniforms was on the verge of closure for lack of orders from Moscow.
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One of them was a student of military uniforms .
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There were others seated away from the table whose function was not clear to Holman, but three were dressed in military uniforms .
naval
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Her husband's naval uniform hung neatly in his mock-mahogany wardrobe, retained with pride.
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The prince was resplendent in his white naval uniform with braid on the visor of his cap.
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He purchased a ceremonial naval uniform , complete with sword belt, sword, and Colt. 45 pistol.
new
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It seems that every police car is brand-new, and Hussein's soldiers sport crisp, new uniforms .
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The new uniform will then be evaluated and minor changes possibly made to features such as pockets and the shirt material.
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He loves everything about his new uniform .
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By 1887, the brigade had new uniforms and brass helmets.
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The band has recently taken delivery of a splendid new uniform which the members are rightly proud of.
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For example, at Nabisco the allowance is intended to cover the costs of new school uniforms .
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These blazers were originally presented as a new uniform for all dealers.
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Tidy team: Langbaurgh's cleansing squads in their new uniforms will have a group of young overseers on their rounds today.
old
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It looked like Uncle Mosse; it was wearing his old uniform .
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There must be an old Navy uniform and a few ball bearings somewhere on Treasure Island.
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But he rolled back the years wearing his old jockeys' uniform in the Radcliffe Selling Stakes at Nottingham.
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The old uniforms left over from the colonial bygone had to go.
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He attracts old guys in uniform and young guys in shorts who wouldn't dream of voting for anyone else.
smart
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In their smart uniforms the police have a lethargic menace.
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He had looked so smart in his uniform: tall, dark and handsome like all the best heroes.
white
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This halberdier wears the blue and white uniform of the city with distinguishing features in red.
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He wore a white uniform and carried a spray can of poison with a long wand.
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Through the slatted blinds I could see a group of prisoners in white cotton uniforms , mowing the grass with sickles.
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Brosz said of the sea of blue and white uniforms .
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They wore white uniforms in summer to distinguish them from the crowds that might throng their stations.
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All those sweet little gals in white uniforms .
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Wearing an immaculate white uniform , he takes my briefcase.
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She loved the white nurses' uniforms , which imparted glamour to her youthful mind.
■ NOUN
army
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He prised the sealed top open and found army uniforms , with no insignia marks on them.
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Two boys one in an army uniform snarled at a conductor on the platform.
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A thin man in army uniform came in, walking with a limp.
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A crash programme was needed to make dyes even for Army uniforms .
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Amin, Wasswa said, was in army uniform .
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The Kamajor militia and other loyal forces have been put in army uniform and brought under its command.
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Rebecca West refers to a photograph of him taken at this time in army uniform as a private of the Worcestershire Regiment.
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Fairfax, who was wearing his army uniform , soon lost patience.
dress
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In spite of the heat, parties in full dress uniform were sent to scour the countryside.
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My father attended in his dress uniform .
police
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Wearing a police uniform did not sanitize a working man from ungodly ways.
school
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The everyday school uniform , now useless, meant that one had hardly anything to wear!
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A little kid in a Catholic school uniform still hops up and down the steps of a stoop on one foot.
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At one school during a parents' coffee morning the conversation drifted around to the subject to school uniform .
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Lately, everything I wore that she made for me, apart from my grammar school uniform , seemed frumpy and old-fashioned.
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Sun Life also paid an allowance towards the cost of new school uniforms .
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They are wearing their school uniforms , black jumpers with white blouses and neat black bows at the neck.
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Yesterday she was trying on her new school uniform .
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The seat of her navy blue school uniform was shiny and wrinkled.
■ VERB
change
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Clara was sent upstairs to change out of her uniform .
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Instead, Wait sneaked off the sub and went back to his quarters and changed into a uniform .
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The Pack hurried back to the dressing-tent to change out of their old-fashioned uniforms .
put
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The Kamajor militia and other loyal forces have been put in army uniform and brought under its command.
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He walked in, put on his uniform and walked out to practice.
require
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So much for the dissenting argument of some goofy liberals that requiring uniforms would be an added financial burden for the poor.
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At first, everyone will probably be required to stay in uniform and be back here by 10 at night.
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Even girls whose schools do not require uniforms will have short, plaid kilts and something khaki on their wish lists.
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Our president recently urged school districts to require students to wear uniforms .
wear
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It looked like Uncle Mosse; it was wearing his old uniform .
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I feel the gates shut on the man, who is now wearing a striped uniform .
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There's a photograph of him standing in front of the cabbages that he'd grown for victory wearing his Home Guard uniform .
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You wear a uniform to play baseball, you wear a uniform to play soccer.
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The inmates wore a uniform of pale blue, the girls with white pinafores.
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You wear a uniform to play baseball, you wear a uniform to play soccer.
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Though they both wore the uniform of a Private it was plain who was of superior rank.
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They wore scarlet and gold uniforms and the shining, close-fitting plastic caps that were the sign of their judicial function.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a school uniform
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Do you have to wear a uniform if you work at McDonald's?
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I used to hate wearing a school uniform .
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Most modern housing developments show a tedious uniformity of design.
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Some of the policemen walking amongst the crowds were not in uniform .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By his own account, Joyce arrived at the pavilion, in Blackshirt uniform , about half an hour before the meeting.
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I went to Oxford in 1961 with my beatnik uniform , sandals and black sweater.
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The uniform was worn for the first time at Easter.
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Their carved costumes varied: uniforms, togas, robes.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
distribution
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Each vertex in the coverage was perturbed by selecting random numbers from a uniform distribution , with ranges defined in Table 6.2.
rate
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The sample is placed in a heating block and warmed at a uniform rate .
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They were anxious to help regulate competition throughout the product market by establishing uniform rates of pay and standard conditions.
standard
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These topics are typically the subject matter of multilateral treaties which define mutually accepted uniform standards .
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Though uniform standards will not be enforced, the agreement calls for joint monitoring of pollution.
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On the other hand, the ward staff should adopt a uniform standard and method throughout the hospital.
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In the crusade for civil rights, the federal government sets a uniform standard that overrides local prejudices.
system
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In the past, it suffered from not being a single uniform system , and from having severe data security problems.
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A uniform system had at last been achieved.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Grade A vegetables have to be uniform in size and without marks or blemishes.
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The postal system operates a uniform price structure, so it always costs the same to send a letter.
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The temperature must be uniform in every area of the reactor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A series of uniform regulations would be promulgated to allow the central government to exert overall budget control.
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Both Acts were to give uniform treatment to the many different forms of credit arrangement.
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Exposing rat cortex to the same stain produces uniform , moderately dense, labelling in the primary visual area.
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However, the distribution of duties was not uniform .
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In detail: The 3M machine produced a uniform pink glow on the screen, in areas which should have been white.
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Its uniform colours are grey and white.
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These tall, uniform boxes are set back from the street, isolated by windswept plazas.
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They did not simply react in a uniform manner to the experience of heat.