I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Be pleasant, don't carp , but act like a corkscrew and draw out all the information you can.
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The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.
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There was little benefit from carping about the organizational source of the disciplinary impedimenta.
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This was Trescothick's first failure in international cricket in his seven outings, so let's not carp too much.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
angler
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The thing to remember is this: modern tackle, fancy baits and productive waters do not make a carp angler .
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A successful carp angler still has to know his fish.
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The fish nutritionist is really the scientist the carp angler needs to talk to for both their aims are similar.
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Both the carp angler and the fish nutritionist want the carp to take their bait or diet.
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Many other fishermen think carp anglers are mad because they can go for days without a bite.
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Redmire itself is one such spiritual water and is the altar where every devoted carp angler would like to worship.
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It is the same economics that ought to influence the carp angler .
pond
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I was in the Ralembergs' garden where something black and white was floating in the small carp pond .
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Her sister spent hours in the pavilion by the carp pond , composing replies.
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And that he bequeathed his carp pond to the local Boy Scouts?
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On our estate were granges, barns, a mill, carp ponds , lush fields and fertile meadows.
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In the middle of the garden was a large, deep carp pond .
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Even from where we looked you could glimpse the glint of the huge carp pond where Abbe Gerard had drowned.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A successful carp angler still has to know his fish.
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Chen succeeded in accelerating their growth by transferring genes from carp and rainbow trout to the tilapia.
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Going back to the carp's insides, once on the way through the carp , the food has to be digested.
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Her sister spent hours in the pavilion by the carp pond, composing replies.
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I used to be able to summon a carp from the pond.
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Instantly the water becomes a maelstrom, as huge grey carp or catfish lunge for the food.
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It is sensible to give the carp a balanced diet for we want the carp to do well on our baits.
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There were carp in there and we saw them.