noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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cultural
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Social semiotics, taking account of questions of interpretation and context, inflects the emphasis specifically towards cultural artefacts and social behaviour.
other
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However, living systems do resemble machines and other human artefacts .
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This means the type of information they can give is often different from that of other artefacts .
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She had also brought to school an old milk-can and other artefacts .
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Most produced only animal bone, whereas the five sunken buildings contained bone, pottery and other small artefacts .
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Without datable coins, other artefacts like pottery can not be dated.
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Life went on, and pottery and other artefacts continued to be made for several decades at least.
■ VERB
use
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Petrological examination can be used on ceramic artefacts and on stone objects.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An artefact from the past can be used to engage interest and awaken curiosity.
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Many artefacts decorated in this way have been found in royal tombs on the mainland.
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The problem of interpretation is closely linked to the place of the artefact in intersubjective order.
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This fixed point may be almost anything which can be independently dated: another coin, another artefact , a historical event.
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To what extent are some of the so-called characteristics of ageing in fact social artefacts?
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Wright's character is in effect a projected reader registering bewilderment before an artefact which has abandoned conventional ordering.