noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a character actor (= an actor who is good at unusual or interesting roles )
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As a character actor you get interesting parts.
a character defect (= a fault in your character )
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Laziness was just one of his character defects.
a character witness (= a witness who says that the person being tried is a good person )
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He said he would gladly be a character witness for her.
a forceful personality/character/opponent etc
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He gained a reputation as a forceful member of the party.
character actor
checksum character
colourful character/figure (= someone who is interesting and unusual )
defamation of character
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He sued the newspaper for defamation of character .
destroy the character of sth
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New buildings have destroyed much of the character of the area.
flamboyant style/character/personality
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his flamboyant style of play
optical character recognition
personality/character traits
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a mental illness associated with particular personality traits
play a role/part/character etc
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Playing a character so different from herself was a challenge.
reformed character
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Greeley says he’s a genuinely reformed character .
shady character
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a shady character
strength of character (= strong ability to deal with difficult situations )
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The victims' families have shown amazing strength of character.
unsavoury characters (= unpleasant people )
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There were a lot of unsavoury characters around the station.
unsympathetic character
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an unsympathetic character
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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I believe that certain central characters of novels, however famous they may be, remain imprisoned by the work they inhabit.
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Donna Barbara had a woman as central character .
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The problem is the presence of Depardieu as the central character , Valjean.
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You are the storyteller, which makes you a central character in each story.
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The central character presents the case for Mackay's individualist anarchism.
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Players see the games through the point of view of a central character , giving them a three-dimensional look.
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A little noticed but central character of such vivisystems is that this paradoxical essence is contagious.
different
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However, different grape varieties produce wines of widely different character .
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Water waves are of course different in character from their more abstract mathematical cousins, yet there are striking parallels.
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This meant that the cities which ultimately grew up within this rural society were of a different character from the surrounding countryside.
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It has a lot of different character , depending on where you are.
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Sometimes, perhaps not very often during their lifetimes, volcanoes erupt and present a wholly different character .
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At thirty-five he was becoming a skilled and versatile developer in his own right but very different in character from his father.
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Over the last ten years I've gone through different phases and characters .
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But the teaching which is condemned here is of a different character ....
main
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The main character in the drama was full of contradictions.
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Likewise, aesthetically lacquered trappings dramatically impede the movements of the drama's main characters .
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The main characters are virtuous people, contending with afflictions throughout the play, but finally rewarded with happiness.
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But the main character Marlow ... played by Tim Roth ... looks back on his life when he returns to port.
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Of course, all of this is arranged by the main character .
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Most of these exercises are double cast so that there are good opportunities for several readings of the main characters .
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In the story, the main character had turned on his television to one of its two channels.
special
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The points cost of these special characters comes out of your Character points allowance in the normal way.
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It is the creative process that gives each its special character .
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She was a very special character in so many ways.
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It takes a special strength of character to spend decades doggedly pursuing a theory that attracts harsh opposition.
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The first step in processing the typesetting tape was to find the mapping between the typesetting codes and the special characters .
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From Payson to Yuma to Sierra Vista, the pace of growth is straining the resources and special character of small towns.
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This involved a painstaking search of the paper dictionary to find examples of each of the special characters .
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What may be especially worth noting are those affirmations that give special character to his everyday life inquiries.
■ NOUN
actor
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In other words, he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor .
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The character actor has appeared in at least 50 motion pictures in a film career that dates to the 1950s.
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I never expected to be much more than a character actor .
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Cyril Shaps, that splendid and irrepressible character actor , David Horovitch and me.
cartoon
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Later we became our favourite cartoon characters .
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Studio stores where you can find classy designs with cartoon characters .
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Daniel Oates has invented a repertoire of three-dimensional cartoon characters to populate his work.
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Fletcher Reede is a cartoon character with real heart.
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These include the development of Harry the Bear, a cartoon character , in stories on the back of the pack.
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The cartoon character he was named after was cuter.
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Mischiefmakers, mayhem creators, fraudulent shady cartoon characters .
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Who knew, until this week, that you were a cartoon character of ridicule?
recognition
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This can be on-line or off-line recognition of hand-printed characters , or of machine-printed characters using optical character recognition.
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Clustering applications would include things like character recognition , sonar / radar signal classification, and robotic control.
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Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at £15,000.
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This could include word processing, a database, case management and optical character recognition .
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And character recognition is relatively slow and prone to errors even on powerful computers.
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Further details of printed character recognition systems are not included here in order to concentrate on cursive handwriting systems.
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Typically context is used only in the form of spelling correction information to compensate for errors in character recognition .
trait
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The inviolable Gedge formed character traits as a child that give a fascinating insight into his later life.
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The character trait here is over-dependence, lack of autonomy. 2.
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But your greatest character trait is your honesty.
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It was an innate character trait .
■ VERB
change
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They completely changed the character of the pine-forest.
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Press Shift-F8 6 $ to change the alignment character to the dollar sign. 16.
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They changed in character: grew as we grew older.
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At the front of the church, Nobleman had changed costume and character .
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What I really should do is change my character , and I still could but - it's difficult.
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The changing and temporal character of all existing things is prominent in the commentary although it stands in opposition to Zeus.
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Choose one that contrasts with the current wall colour or wallpaper and see how it totally changes its character .
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The status line then changes to Type the characters that you want to replace, then press Esc.
create
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Nineteenth-century choreographers creating either a character or a national ballet used both occupational and natural emotional gesture in their dance designs.
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It was obvious that for each of his speeches, he created a character and rehearsed it in front of a mirror.
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Scriptwriters will create worlds and characters with particular behaviour patterns and then let them build their own story.
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Besides, he always began creating a character from the voice.
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More than one word may be created from the character lattice.
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Mr Driscoll created the cartoon characters as bedtime stories for his children, Adam and Holly.
play
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Because she played a character we liked.
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Redford played a character where everything came easy.
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Rex may be the ideal idol to many men but you will have to settle with playing his character in the game.
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What Ullman wants is to play every character in her imagination, at great personal sacrifice.
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The actor Walter Matthau, best known for playing crumpled, curmudgeonly characters on screen, has died aged 79.
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Woodard plays this conflicted character at an Emmy / CableACE level.
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You play a character called Rohan who must set free the monks he finds on his journey.
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Sister Aimee herself-in fetching costume-always played the lead character .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blacken sb's name/character/reputation
stain on sb's character/name/reputation etc
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Buy him eine kleine Knackwurst and toddle home without a stain on your character.
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Duran dominated Leonard physically that night, but five months later the New Orleans farce put a huge stain on his reputation.
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Robert Lopez is released without a stain on his character.
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The massacre has left an indelible stain on the name of Clan Campbell.
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Whatever the outcome, he not unnaturally regarded his time in gaol as a stigma, as a stain on his character.
sympathetic figure/character
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But now he, or she, needs to be an even broader, more sympathetic figure than before.
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Charles didn't find many sympathetic characters among the cast.
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The reader zooms through the story hoping for a resolution that will satisfy the mystery without sacrificing any of the sympathetic characters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A candidate's character and qualifications are more important than past experience.
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A couple of suspicious-looking characters were standing outside the house.
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A person's character is very important to me when I decide who I want to work with.
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Ancient literature uses fictional characters to illustrate moral dilemmas.
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Beneath his brash, noisy exterior was a much shrewder and lonelier character than he admitted.
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Carmen Maura plays the passionate, beautiful Pepa, the central character of director Pedro Almodovar's movie.
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Each group is named after a fictional character like Mickey Mouse.
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Each neighborhood has its own unique character .
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Ellis is a man of exceptional character .
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He was a repulsive character .
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He writes Westerns in which the main characters are gay.
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Her behavior last night revealed a lot about her character .
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Her female characters often have strong, important relationships with other women.
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Her husband was a man of good character , well-liked and respected by his colleagues.
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His actions during the war showed his character .
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It's a red wine with an almost meaty character .
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It was a wonderful story -- the characters were so convincing.
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Jed is one of most likeable characters in the play.
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King Henry is the name given to a donkey, the title character in the children's book, 'King Henry Saves Christmas'.
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Liquids are different in character from both solids and gases.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Now they're arguably the easiest of all classics to look after, and come brimming with character as standard.
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Rex may be the ideal idol to many men but you will have to settle with playing his character in the game.
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She did forget the name of the other most memorable character , bearded and effusive.
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She gave up trying to analyse Guy Sterne's character on the basis of his bookshelves.
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She is the only character with a named chapter in each of the four sections.
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The pronunciations given for these components, and for the characters of which they form part, are those of present-day Mandarin.
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Thus, when you insert it into text, existing characters move to the right and down to make room.