noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a paper/plastic/china cup (= one made of paper etc )
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All they had to drink was warm beer in plastic cups.
a wooden/china/glass etc bowl
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I broke a china bowl.
bone china
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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She scraped the earth back and saw something very dark blue - china or glass, buried there.
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It was a blue china barn owl with a light bulb stuck to its head.
fine
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Prue Hines is the cook, offering a four-course meal in the evening accompanied by fine china and candlelight.
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A delicate process of lithography brings out the richness of the bird's colouring on Coalport's finest bone china .
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This year 31 new studies in fine bone china and porcelain have been introduced.
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New: meal service in Royal Class features sumptuous season specialties served in fine china and crisp linen cloths.
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The rehabilitation of the troubled fine china and crystal maker is likely to continue to be slow and painful.
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I prefer artwork, although I specialise in fine china and porcelain.
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Dinner is an occasion to be savoured with candlelight, cut glass and fine china .
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Delicate wash A 40°C wash for glasses and fine china .
good
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Suppose Anna dropped a piece of the best china ?
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He even glued three pieces of my good china back together; you can hardly see where.
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We've got to treat you like best bone china .
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Leave the crystal and good china to those intimate, sit-down dinner parties.
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They'd got out the best china and crystal glasses, the damask napkins, the ebony-handled knives.
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Opposite: The butler's pantry, with plenty of room for storing the glass and five best china services.
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She's sure to have got out the best china and baked a meat pie or something.
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Wedgwood plate from good china shops and department stores; bread and butter plate, £19.95; oval platter, £28.95.
white
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Serve chilled, in narrow goblets or white china cups, with a little cream floated on top.
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Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white , nineteenth-century china handle.
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The simplest white china displayed on white shelves achieves a puritan simplicity which is complemented by the warm tones of terracotta.
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Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china .
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The meal was served on white Minton china with gold rim and the coffee and desert were served on a Spode service.
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On the dressing-table was a white china hand.
■ NOUN
bone
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Interest is building up in Waterford Wedgwood, makers of the famous crystal glassware and bone china .
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There are vases of tulips and bowls of fruit, a bone china tea set and a stack of decorated hatboxes.
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A delicate process of lithography brings out the richness of the bird's colouring on Coalport's finest bone china .
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This year 31 new studies in fine bone china and porcelain have been introduced.
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Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.
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We've got to treat you like best bone china .
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The subjects of many of her pictures have been transferred to Limoges dinnerware and transformed into limited-edition bone china figurines.
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Royal Tuscan will continue to produce a wide variety of fine bone china ware.
cabinet
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When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
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My grandmother sat down in the carved chair next to the china cabinet .
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A suicide note was found on a china cabinet .
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She stood behind the china cabinet and watched as he poured it down the sink.
clay
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The biggest extractive industry in Cornwall today is the mining of china clay .
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But china clay production has increased.
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Scraperboard a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface.
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Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
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Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.
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The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.
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Much of the china clay went to the Potteries of Staffordshire to be made into crockery - cups, saucers and plates.
cup
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Serve chilled, in narrow goblets or white china cups , with a little cream floated on top.
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A man was sitting at a small table in the corner, drinking coffee from a delicate china cup .
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Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank.
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Like a cracked china cup , the continental crust is still fragile where it has been damaged in the past.
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Some one once gave me ever such a lovely little china cup when you was born, with pictures on it.
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Well-manicured hands took her jacket respectfully, offered her a seat, brought her coffee in a china cup with a saucer.
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The next month, china cups clinked again at the White House for Puerto Rican contributors and businessmen.
shop
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This young man was a bull looking for a china shop .
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And needless to say, in the tiny teahouse I was myself the proverbial bull in the china shop .
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Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop .
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Fanatics such as Obispal were invaluable; yet they were akin to bulls set loose in china shops .
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Certainly the Imperium embraced a million china shops and more; much crockery could be wasted.
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Wedgwood plate from good china shops and department stores; bread and butter plate, £19.95; oval platter, £28.95.
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You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
■ VERB
make
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Your baby isn't made of china , so she won't break!
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Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colours.
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Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
like a bull in a china shop
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Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
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You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a china tea cup
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We use our china only on special occasions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, that in spite of the immense price difference between various designs, the basic china was of exactly the same high standard.
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He looked as clean and pretty as a Chelsea china figure.
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Its linen and its china patterns are on display in the local museum.
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Later, it may allow brides to peruse china patterns on video from their homes.
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The next month, china cups clinked again at the White House for Puerto Rican contributors and businessmen.
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There was a fire burning in the grate and a china chamber-pot painted with birds and flowers beneath the bed.
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This turned out to be pottery waste, a surviving memorial to a now vanished china factory in the local town.
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When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.