noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assault and battery
dry battery
rechargeable batteries
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rechargeable batteries
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dead
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We return to the vehicles to discover a dead battery in the second truck.
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He has been known to take dead batteries out of a camera and throw them in a drawer instead of the trash.
flat
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Read in studio An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery .
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Most mail bombs contain a flat battery , like the type used in watches.
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Mr Andrews, of Pyle, Mid-Glamorgan, said yesterday the flat battery meant his daughter arrived five minutes later at hospital.
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When we arrived at Selsit, we would exchange the flat battery for a fully charged one and walk back.
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He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble - a flat battery .
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Vets need reliability, and both cars have proved exemplary. Flat batteries have been the only problem.
new
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Britain's Science and Engineering Research Council has granted the university £15250 for work on new battery systems.
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He saw no alternative but to wait and hear what our new battery might accomplish.
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A new battery was fitted and Brundle continued, but only the driver was charging.
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The new batteries are expected to sell for about the same price as current models.
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In the handover to Jan Lammers, another new battery was fitted, and then another in an unscheduled stop.
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They might overnight you a new battery .
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He had to have a new battery for it, and two of the tyres weren't legal.
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And research on pure electrics powered by exotic new battery systems is promising.
rechargeable
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But, according to Boots, rechargeable batteries and chargers can save you more than £70 a year.
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Chatsworth-based Ora won for its VibraRing line of rechargeable cellular phone batteries that can replace jarring rings with vibrations.
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It can run off a rechargeable battery pack.
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A rechargeable battery protects the stored programme data for up to eight months in the event of the programmer being unplugged.
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These modular construction kits now include solar cells, rechargeable batteries etc.
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Unusually, it had a rechargeable NiCad battery fitted.
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A major improvement was the use of a rechargeable battery inside the transmitter, which was recharged via two protruding wires.
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Solar panels are a good investment for customers, who would otherwise use kerosene or rechargeable batteries for electricity.
spare
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It may include parts of larger support weapons such as mortars, radio equipment and spare batteries .
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Make sure you have a supply of spare batteries too.
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Carrying spare batteries could be a cheaper option to fast charging and all chargers rely on a power point anyway.
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Some people take a fully charged spare battery along with them just in case!
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You don't have long between dives, so take spare batteries .
whole
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First and foremost this involved a whole battery of controls over production and consumption.
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A whole battery of measures was tried in an attempt to get them to give up cigarettes.
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They've got gunpowder enough to keep the whole battery firing for ever.
■ NOUN
artillery
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He signed his troops to move out. Artillery batteries opened up.
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These Federals, aided by a number of artillery batteries , man-aged to check Jackson on his left and in his center.
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There were also artillery batteries and thousands of yards of interlocking systems of barbed wire defences.
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An artillery battery belonging to the Seventh Virginia Regiment galloped after and did some damage.
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It was made by the Confederates on an artillery battery and its supporting infantry in the lines of General George McCall.
car
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Powered by solar panels and car batteries , the music machines repeatedly play a 15-minute recording made of the Farallones murre colony.
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Personal computers are now commonly found in site huts, even in remote locations where they can be powered by car batteries .
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Optional accessories include a car battery adaptor, car stereo cassette adaptor and car mount kit.
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The Darkfall energy could have been attracted by the car battery .
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They discovered a car battery had been wired to several bottles of petrol.
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Such a strike would be immediately attracted to the operation of the car battery .
compartment
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The detector should also never be laid in mud or on wet ground as water may enter the battery compartments .
life
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I found that the power-management features could more than double the battery life .
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Digital technology makes it easier to prevent signal theft and it means better voice quality and longer battery life .
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The only question I have regarding the DeskJet Portable concerns battery life .
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More money buys more battery life .
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Actual battery life will vary quite a lot according to what the machine is used for.
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Aimed at the dedicated games player with crisp graphics and rapid scaling, it's let down by short battery life .
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Let down by a short battery life , about three hours.
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Smaller might mean a battery life .
pack
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It can run off a rechargeable battery pack .
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Patients can wear a battery pack or plug into an electrical outlet to recharge the heart's battery.
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Layout of components inside the case showing position of the battery pack .
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After the rehearsal the sound engineer gave me a battery pack and microphone to attach to my evening gown.
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As well as a steel carrying case, the drill comes with battery pack , charger, chuck key and a double-ended screwdriver bit.
power
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If it proves successful, the device will dramatically cut the cost of battery power .
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To compound the problem, a drop in battery power corrupted the software programme which controlled the radio itself.
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Aprilia claims it can cover 190 miles on a tank of fuel and more than 20 miles using battery power alone.
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The ultimate aim is to replace gasoline altogether by using battery power or other non-polluting energy sources.
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Size is not the only requirement for portability - battery power is important.
technology
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Power supply is a big problem today, since battery technology has not progressed at the same rate as other information technologies.
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The 50-mile range is expected to double within the next year with the introduction of nickel hydride battery technology , Chapman said.
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This was not merely the result of lobbying; battery technology is simply not good enough to make electric cars attractive.
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Lundqvist said the company has not decided what if any of the new battery technologies it will use for its cellular phones.
■ VERB
aggravate
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Originally charged with aggravated battery , he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of reckless homicide.
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On Sept. 29, 1995, an aggravated battery incident report was filed with Metro-Dade Police.
change
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The disadvantages are that the batteries are inconvenient to change and severe battery leakage can be disastrous to the circuit board.
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At his name, James Whitaker, royal correspondent of the Mirror, brightened as though you had changed his batteries .
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The control box has to be unscrewed and its top removed to change the batteries .
charge
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There are many ways in which we can spend time in recreation, re-\#charging our batteries .
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Canseco was charged with simple battery and was scheduled for a bond hearing Thursday.
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This prevents a permanently installed generator from being charged by the battery when it is not creating an output itself.
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Then it needs three hours to charge the battery .
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The engine charges the batteries , so there is no need to plug it in to charge it up.
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One use of the food you eat is to charge up your batteries .
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Best of all though, you don't need to charge the batteries up when you get home.
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Originally charged with aggravated battery , he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of reckless homicide.
connect
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The panels or arrays are used to run electrical appliances or systems and are connected to batteries to store surplus power.
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After building the circuit, connect the battery .
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After building the 2-bit latch, connect the battery and check operation by setting up a binary number such as 10.
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When complete, connect the battery and note that one output assumes a Logic 1 state and the other, a 0.
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Turn the sliding contact of the potentiometer to approximately mid-position. Connect the battery .
keep
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The gas turbine also keeps the batteries topped up.
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Otherwise, the way to keep your battery topped up is to use a mains charger.
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They've got gunpowder enough to keep the whole battery firing for ever.
need
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It never breaks down, doesn't need a battery , and there is no additional expense once you own it.
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And in my case, I need to recharge batteries with a variety of activities as well.
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Its new Door Chime Kit contains everything you need to install a new chime, though you will need four R14-size batteries .
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Car owners needing their wheel or battery changed are now greeted by men clad in bright orange uniforms and natty caps.
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Best of all though, you don't need to charge the batteries up when you get home.
operate
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The Courier operates from batteries and therefore is very easy to install.
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Some are fitted to the accessory shoe on the top of camcorders and operate off their own battery supplies.
put
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She'd put new batteries in the radio.
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In the meantime, put your batteries on charge!
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He put the battery back in.
recharge
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Solar energy is converted by cells on the Solar Car's flanks to drive its electric motor and recharge its back-up batteries .
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And in my case, I need to recharge batteries with a variety of activities as well.
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It gave her a chance to put everything on hold for a brief while, recharge the batteries after a flight.
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Patients can wear a battery pack or plug into an electrical outlet to recharge the heart's battery.
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He had explained how important it was to recharge the batteries .
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He says it's a good idea to recharge the batteries before the big scene.
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The letters are manna from heaven, filling my time and recharging my batteries .
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Durrant was sent to Florida last month to recharge his batteries .
replace
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They stood in the darkness as he replaced the fading batteries .
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He says that he replaced the batteries , but the alarm kept going off all the time.
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Make a habit of replacing the battery once a year.
run
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It can run off a rechargeable battery pack.
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The two doctors bared its chest and ran wires from the battery to the bone above the heart.
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It was run on accumulator batteries which were filled with acid, and they were the big drawback.
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It was run on batteries that had to be recharged.
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The buses run on batteries which have to be charged fifteen minutes every hour and eleven hours at night.
sell
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The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores but is expanding to grocery shops and kiosks.
use
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For example, using Wallston's battery of research methods does not alter their gender associations.
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The cordless version uses the VersaPak rechargeable battery system.
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Aprilia claims it can cover 190 miles on a tank of fuel and more than 20 miles using battery power alone.
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All of the interesting events, like impulses, involve making currents flow, using those batteries .
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If you own a detector working from this system you should try to use only batteries with proper crimped terminals.
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The ultimate aim is to replace gasoline altogether by using battery power or other non-polluting energy sources.
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Solar panels are a good investment for customers, who would otherwise use kerosene or rechargeable batteries for electricity.
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The manufacturers are currently working on an alternative version which uses sodium acid batteries .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
recharge your batteries
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Durrant was sent to Florida last month to recharge his batteries.
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The letters are manna from heaven, filling my time and recharging my batteries.
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They like to renew old acquaintances, make new friends, see an interesting place in good company, recharge their batteries.
spare key/battery/clothes etc
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Carrying spare batteries could be a cheaper option to fast charging and all chargers rely on a power point anyway.
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Eventually, the spare key was found and they were released from the clutches of the car.
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I'd got no money, no night things, no spare clothes, no bank card.
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It may include parts of larger support weapons such as mortars, radio equipment and spare batteries.
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Make sure you have a supply of spare batteries too.
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Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it.
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Some people take a fully charged spare battery along with them just in case!
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Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ferguson was found guilty of battery .
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He commands a battery of artillery.
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This tape player operates on six C batteries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the categories dropped were battery , narcotics and weapons offenses, grand theft and indecent exposure.
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He says the batteries may be taken out and then the alarm wouldn't work.
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New products, including liquid crystal display televisions, long-life batteries and new materials offer promise for the future.
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Out of ninety-nine people screened for the study, sixteen were diagnosed as caffeine dependent after undergoing a battery of evaluations.
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The batteries for the torches were recharged from the wind generator and the solar panels, as was the radio battery.
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The provision of batteries and responsibility for their condition must rest with the candidate.