noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
binding
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Mammalian cell receptors can have high solute binding affinity , but also allow for rapid on/off binding kinetics.
close
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The closer the affinity , the better the value of one individual predicts that of another.
elective
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I have, how shall I put it, organised an elective affinity for you already.
great
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Aluminium likes silicon: it has a greater affinity for inorganic silicate than for anything else.
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But, for such an attribute, the difference could also be due to the greater psychological affinity between Is.
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That retinue was one of the great affinities of the Middle Ages, both in scale and cohesion.
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With meat, however, he has a great affinity .
high
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These are small proteins capable of binding hydrophobic molecules with high affinity and selectivity.
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In marine sediments and faeces, sulphate reducing bacteria outcompete methanogenic bacteria because of their higher affinity for such substrates.
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Clay soils, composed of very fine particles, have a much higher affinity for water than silty soils.
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Mammalian cell receptors can have high solute binding affinity , but also allow for rapid on/off binding kinetics.
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This nematode haemoglobin is chemically similar to myoglobin and has the highest affinity for oxygen of any known animal haemoglobin.
low
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Single met box sites have very low affinity .
natural
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Manifestations Gifts A natural affinity with animals and birds.
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It has a natural affinity with oak ageing, and yet it can be fresh and light.
special
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Humans have a special affinity for dolphins, which are widely perceived as having a special degree of intelligence.
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Mustard has a special affinity for game, we think, and this recipe Tshowcases the interaction admirably.
strong
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St. Peter's must have had strong affinity with the nearby Castle.
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Pete Burns' I feel a strong affinity with him, almost a brotherly thing.
stylistic
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Other patterns do provide, however, an opportunity to recognize such integral stylistic affinity .
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This, again, indicates the possibility of a more specific stylistic affinity between these pavements.
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The main assumption, below, is that various inferences from style may suggest different levels of stylistic affinity .
■ VERB
feel
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Perhaps they feel an affinity with its ghosts.
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Bradley, despite his 1735 endorsement of the sea clock, felt little affinity for anything outside astronomy.
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We might well feel some affinity with him in our own times.
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I felt an affinity with him.
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He felt an affinity with the horse; she was a drop-out horse, one of the great rejected, like him.
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Pete Burns' I feel a strong affinity with him, almost a brotherly thing.
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Juliet was beginning to feel a sort of affinity for Birkleigh.
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He felt an early affinity with the light of the local people.
show
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Three conclusions can be drawn: The three polymerases show slightly different affinities for the same promoter.
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Hawtrey, then, showed some affinity with Keynes.
suggest
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Another pavement, from Verulamium, also suggests some affinity with the Lion and Stag mosaic.
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The figures and description suggest affinities with Ophiotreta or possibly Ophiopristis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Samples are stained with a dye that has an affinity for the proteins.
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They seemed so different, yet he sensed an affinity between them.
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Venetians feel more affinity with inhabitants of Vienna than with those of Rome.
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We have a deep affinity formed through many years of friendship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He shared with her a great many affinities and interests and returned her respect.
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I felt an affinity with him.
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Unlike his brother Clarence, he acquired no ready-made affinity which he could exploit when he came of age.