adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an appropriate/apt metaphor (= a very suitable one )
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Building on sand is an apt metaphor for the challenge we face.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Paul Manville had to be given his due - he could not have chosen a more apt record to convey his message.
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Black children from middle-class or affluent families, they say, are more apt to adopt what is commonly called black slang.
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Shifting sands might have been a more apt title!
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She asks him to remember her, and he replies that he is more apt to forget anything else.
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There could not be a more apt description of this mountain in miniature.
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In 1955, Gibson formally dubbed it an organization, though social club might have been a more apt description.
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He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue.
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Consequently, the talk at the sand table or the block area is more apt to be teacher-directed.
most
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Try, therefore, to pick out the cases that are most apt for your argument, and rely on them.
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These are the books our young children are most apt to encounter when they read on their own.
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In this situation professionals are most apt to allow their normal reserve about commerce to lapse, and to give meaningful information.
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A euphemism is most apt to be noticed if it is new.
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A theoretician is well prepared to consider what the most apt questions about works of art may be.
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The play most apt to the period would have been Macbeth, and the ghosts were from Hiroshima.
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Many problems have a clear local manifestation; local initiative and self-help must consequently provide the most apt solutions.
particularly
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The Corydons are placed further away, which lends their performance an intoxicating dream-like quality, which I find particularly apt .
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Here again, the word is not particularly apt .
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A particularly apt image, since Master James's hotter moments increased the equine nature of his features.
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At that time the metaphor of the sinking of the Titanic seemed particularly apt .
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The tobacco company is a particularly apt choice for the Whitney's Board of Trustees.
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The eye-catchiness of collage also renders it a particularly apt medium for getting a point across effectively.
very
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Treloar has described a very apt demonstration of the transition.
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Choose a still, windless day to climb it, otherwise the name is likely to prove very apt !
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Some people are very apt to dump all old people together.
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The manual suggests that you move the carriage as if ironing and this is a very apt description.
■ NOUN
description
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This time, the term attenuation band is an apt description of each range of frequency.
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In 1955, Gibson formally dubbed it an organization, though social club might have been a more apt description .
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We were travelling along the Lofoten Wall, an apt description for the mountains protecting this huge sea fjord.
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More than half of them said it tastes like melted-down bubble gum, which is an apt description of Josta.
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There could not be a more apt description of this mountain in miniature.
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The manual suggests that you move the carriage as if ironing and this is a very apt description .
pupil
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If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil .
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In the next few days, he appeared to become a less apt pupil .
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With every move she gave a little gasp, as her body, previous experience or not, proved an apt pupil .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fahey was obviously an apt pupil.
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Gibson refers to NARA as an organization, but "social club" might be a more apt description.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And I am apt to nudge my boys to join me in folding the laundry while we watch a television show together.
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And the more successful a company has been, the more difficult and painful this process is apt to be.
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In this situation professionals are most apt to allow their normal reserve about commerce to lapse, and to give meaningful information.
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Mugezi's excremental duties are an apt metaphor for the punishing regime in which he finds himself trapped.
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Shaw is like saltwater in the face and Margaret was apt to splutter.
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She asks him to remember her, and he replies that he is more apt to forget anything else.
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The former epithet is apt , the latter less so.
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When a moving object catches their attention, babies are apt to focus on it.