noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arc welding
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The foods which we are advised to eat in greater quantities arc those supplying dietary fibre.
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Unlike on Earth, most of the visible features on the Moon are circles or great arcs constituting parts of circles.
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Upon a network of metals, lighted by great arc lamps, the workers here deal not with packages but with trucks.
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And so they are: a valley view looking across and up at - a great arc of high peaks.
long
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A dizzyingly long way below lay a long, deep arc of white-powder sand.
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At 7: 30 the choppers banked in a long arc and approached the hamlet of Thuan Yen from the southwest.
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I found myself wanting longer and longer times of quiet, longer arcs of contemplation.
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In a long , flat arc , he descended toward the surface of Japetus.
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Gliding in long arcs , she swings below the moon and the guy wires before landing in the grass.
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She lets the ball go in a long arc , pushing from the wrist.
volcanic
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Volcanicity and magma emplacement, largely in the form of large granite intrusions, characterize the volcanic arc .
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Between the outer-arc ridge and the volcanic arc a forearc basin may be formed.
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A complicated pattern of basins and ridges hind the volcanic arc .
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Convergent boundaries between oceanic lithosphere are marked by an oceanic trench, a volcanic island arc and a Wadati-Benioff zone.
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Back-arc spreading may be initiated within the volcanic arc because the high heat flux from below weakens the lithosphere.
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This maintains a shallow angle of subduction beneath the outer arc but steepens below the main volcanic arc to about 60°.
wide
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Huge semi-circular feathers in dazzling hues sprang vertically before sweeping in wide arcs to the ground.
■ NOUN
island
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One very obvious form is the volcanism of island arcs and continental-margin orogens associated with plate convergence.
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The second category is closely related to oceanic trenches and their associated island arcs or mountain belts.
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Where oceanic lithosphere is subducted beneath another oceanic part of a plate the associated volcanic activity and produce an intra-oceanic island arc .
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In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
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Such back-arc spreading is analogous to that encountered behind some intra-oceanic island arcs .
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Unless the island arc is subducted it will be accreted to the continental-margin orogen previously formed along the edge of the continent.
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Convergent boundaries between oceanic lithosphere are marked by an oceanic trench, a volcanic island arc and a Wadati-Benioff zone.
lamp
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And the projector's arc lamps were not so much set as sunset, through a fog.
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The light from the launderette had shone upon him like an arc lamp .
■ VERB
describe
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Chen saw the knife describe an arc through the air and felt himself flinch.
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Rekindled and re-leased with a shove, the chandelier began to swing again, describing a larger arc this time.
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Though the tarmac takes a smooth U-turn on to the next straight, rider and machine will not describe such a graceful arc .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
describe a circle/an arc etc
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Chen saw the knife describe an arc through the air and felt himself flinch.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The islands lie in an arc in the eastern Caribbean.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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One often meets graphs in which the arcs have names too.
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Out past the northern arc of the perimeter highway, comfortable subdivisions have been carved under a leafy canopy.
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They may also be decorated with dots, arcs, circles, triangles, stamped, notched or bear incised lines.