noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a soup/cereal/pudding bowl (= for eating soup, cereal etc from )
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These work well as pasta or cereal bowls.
breakfast cereal
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Many breakfast cereals are high in sugar.
the wheat/cereal/rice etc crop
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In January farmers prepare the ground for the potato crop.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
other
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Rolled oats, bran, and other ready-to-feed cereals are stored in 44-gallon drums with lids.
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Rye is very tolerant of poor, acid soils, is extremely frost-hardy and ripens much earlier than other cereals .
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Unlike other cereals , rye is cross-fertilized and does not remain true to type.
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It is not widely grown in Britain, as it requires strong land and considerably higher temperatures than other cereals .
■ NOUN
bowl
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She carried the cereal bowls and the knives and forks to the sink.
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I rinse the cereal bowl and leave it in the kitchen sink for tonight.
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Place freshly ground coffee in cereal bowls inside the refrigerator for several days.
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These promotional items are wonderful collectibles and range from stuffed animals and dolls to cereal bowls and kitchen utensils.
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To serve, measure a few tablespoons of mixture into a cereal bowl and add milk.
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Some one lays out the cereal bowls .
box
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Who knows, we might soon see the big screen's first cereal box adaptation.
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Oregon cereal box collector Thomas Szczesniak has traded for several of the Cornhusker boxes.
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Even readers whose knowledge of the written word comes from cereal boxes are familiar with metaphors using battlefields and quicksand.
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Collecting cereal boxes is becoming a rage.
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Through a word-of-mouth network and Internet chatting, cereal box collectors negotiate for new boxes.
breakfast
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In the supermarkets of Colombo and Kandy, Puffa-Puffa-rice breakfast cereal is on sale for the equivalent of three dollars a packet.
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Some products that bear freshness dates are cheeses, breakfast cereals , bakery products, and mayonnaise.
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Bread, rolls, breakfast cereal , bananas and fried fruit are ideal.
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It was when I went on breakfast cereals that liquor got me.
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If more is needed, try a breakfast cereal that contains bran, or sprinkle bran over another cereal.
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Euell Gibbons once claimed on my living room television that some breakfast cereal tasted like hickory nuts.
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The week's snow has become crusty and it yields underfoot, with a crunch like breakfast cereal .
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Most over-the-counter breakfast cereals have 2 to 4 grams of fiber, and high-fiber cereals have up to 9 grams.
crop
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Millet was still the primary cereal crop .
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An even later flight to assess late senescence of the cereal crops might be undertaken this year.
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In the cold, wet northern and western parts of the country it is by far the most reliable cereal crop .
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The biggest losers will be cotton, cattle and cereal crops .
packet
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He looked at the cereal packets .
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Make your own kidney dialysis machine using an old cereal packet , some Sellotape and a used toilet roll.
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Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets.
price
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Grain-based cereal prices already have come under fire from Capitol Hill, with a report in mid-March by Reps.
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A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report concluded that retail cereal prices have risen 93 percent from 1983 to 1996&038;.
production
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The study suggests that world cereal production in 2060 will be between 1 and 7 percent lower than today's levels.
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Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
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It is estimated that world cereal production , which totalled billion tonnes in 1990, will top 3.25 billion tonnes by 2060.
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Similarly, cereal production per acre of arable land is indicative of the comparative efficiency of agricultural practices.
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Suppose the level of cereal production remains the same over the years while the rate of population growth accelerates.
■ VERB
eat
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Back at the house Philip made himself some tea and ate some cereal .
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Taking its place is a breakfast of whole-grain breads and high-fiber, ready-to-\#eat cereals .
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I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
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Weird Beard says, Eat your cereal with a fork.
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Most people would only eat bran with breakfast cereal .
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I woke one morning to find him eating cereal out of a saucepan.
grow
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The island of Porto Santo grows cereals , vines, figs, market garden produce, melons and pumpkins.
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They will grow good cereal crops so long as soil structure is maintained by the return of sufficient organic matter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bowl of cereal
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Eaten with milk or cream, they made an acceptable breakfast cereal .
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Half of Britain's cereal farms rank among the big 300,000.
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It seems as though every day a new kind of cereal appears on the grocery shelves.
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Looking at the table we can see how low the calcium level is in cereals.
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Lucky Charms Nestlé's kicking cereal .
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Millet was still the primary cereal crop.
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Some products that bear freshness dates are cheeses, breakfast cereals, bakery products, and mayonnaise.
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Soon afterwards, he moved from livestock to cereal .