noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chocolate/lemon etc cake (= a sponge cake with a chocolate etc flavour )
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She'd baked a chocolate cake for me.
cheese/chocolate etc spread
chocolate box
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He had grown tired of the chocolate box views.
chocolate brown
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He was wearing a chocolate brown pullover.
chocolate chip cookie
chocolate/strawberry etc flavour
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Does this milkshake come in a chocolate flavor?
drinking chocolate
hot chocolate
milk chocolate
plain chocolate
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bitter
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Raspberry Ripple Cake combines vanilla ice-cream, raspberry sorbet, bitter chocolate and fresh raspberries.
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Ember, thumping down from the sunflower against the bitter chocolate of the Martian sky.
dark
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The woman's dark like runny chocolate , her skin all smooth and beautiful.
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Like the people at Upchurch, Kubinski prefers dark chocolate to milk.
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Was the name of her former hair colouring: A dark beaver B chocolate kiss C coconut brown? 3.
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But there's a darker side to chocolate addiction.
hot
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Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it.
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He always drank tea in the morning, and she, suffering from an ulcer, always drank hot chocolate .
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Phoebe made all three of them hot chocolate .
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Thwack the bottom but be careful not to get hot melted chocolate on your finger.
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If only I hadn't had that last cup of hot chocolate .
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The church-run concession was open, selling coffee and hot chocolate .
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We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate .
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Books serves coffee and the tastiest hot chocolate in town.
melted
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Slick shapes together with melted chocolate and decorate joins with piped chocolate.
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Dip them diagonally in melted white chocolate , leave to dry, then dip the other way in plain.
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Droplets of water can ruin melted chocolate , as can overheating.
plain
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Spread white chocolate layer over plain chocolate in tin, then add remaining chocolate layer.
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Cool. 4 Melt the white and plain chocolate in separate bowls over hot water.
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Chill until set. 3 Melt the remaining plain chocolate and the white chocolate in separate bowls over hot water.
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Melt the remaining plain chocolate in a pan with the cream.
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Why couldn't those concerned realize that plain chocolate combined best with ice-cream?
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Mix cheeses. melt plain chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water.
rich
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For the more sophisticated palate of adults, it's Häagen-Dazs ice cream and rich chocolate mousse.
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As he closed it behind her, the lingering aroma of rich chocolate emerged from the gloom around them.
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Although momentarily tempted by the seductively rich chocolate dessert Sabrina's willpower held firm and she gave it to Graham.
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Substantial slices of rich creamy chocolate gateau, also decorated with glacé cherries.
white
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Melt 3oz white chocolate , fold into cream.
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In milk chocolate , white chocolate and semisweet, it sells for $ 25.
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Spread white chocolate layer over plain chocolate in tin, then add remaining chocolate layer.
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Grate the remaining white chocolate and sprinkle on top.
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Cool. 4 Melt the white and plain chocolate in separate bowls over hot water.
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Make sure you melt the chocolate slowly, especially white chocolate.
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Try white chocolate instead of plain, and serve the ice with chocolate-dipped strawberries.
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Dip them diagonally in melted white chocolate , leave to dry, then dip the other way in plain.
■ NOUN
bar
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Your average chocolate bar , far from being the energy snack advertisers would have you believe, is loaded with fat.
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The chocolate bars are on Big Mal if they start with three points.
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Potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars are circulated.
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Philip held out the paper that the chocolate bar Lee had given him had been wrapped in.
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She set off about an hour later, the pockets of her waterproof stocked with chocolate bars against starvation.
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They're handing out drinks, chocolate bars and advice on resting from the road.
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If only there were a little chocolate bar we could give her.
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It's impossible to see the fat that's in a crisp, or biscuit, or chocolate bar .
biscuit
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Wagers of chocolate biscuits were signed before the event: - would the Treasury beat the Felcourt girls?
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And I hope you like chocolate biscuits .
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Fenella offered to make her some hot sweet tea and fetch some chocolate biscuits from downstairs to comfort her.
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All those goodies from pork pies to chocolate biscuits had to be atoned.
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And it may tempt you into a mid-morning snack of chocolate biscuits or worse.
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Automatically, his hand went out for a chocolate biscuit .
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Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.
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He came across her having a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit in the canteen.
box
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Jars of boiled sweets, rusks, biscuit tins and chocolate boxes are on view.
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Main picture: Ulvik Fjord - real chocolate box views.
cake
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I wouldn't want a pudding unless it was chocolate cake !
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They include using straw to make compost, paper ... and even chocolate cake .
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He's a little sceptical about the prospects for straw-based chocolate cake .
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Almost at once she was back again staggering under the weight of an enormous round chocolate cake on a china platter.
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That I was the absentee hostess and nobody like the chocolate cake we serve at the garden parties.
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I do try to keep away from fattening foods, but my greatest weakness is chocolate cake .
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I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly.
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Do I have to choose between goat's cheese and chocolate cake ? as Queneau used to ask.
chip
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I buy my six-pack and some chocolate chip cookies.
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Sprinkle the top evenly with chocolate chips and serve at once.
factory
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Some of the people work in manufacturing, particularly in chocolate factories , railway works and printing.
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Work, rest and steal SWEET-TOOTHED thieves made off with 230,000 Mars Bars in a cheeky raid on the world-famous chocolate factory .
milk
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My appetite dwindled and even my favourite food, milk chocolate , failed to raise my morale.
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In milk chocolate , white chocolate and semisweet, it sells for $ 25.
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SuperMario Mini rolls are chocolate flavoured mini rolls, covered in real milk chocolate, with a chocolate buttercream filling.
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For a dairy cake, you can use milk chocolate and butter.
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Stir one third into the hot milk chocolate custard and the rest into the plain.
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The wood is a brown color a little deeper than milk chocolate , smooth with rounded edges for aerodynamics.
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For a quick snack I turned to milk chocolate .
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It was thickly covered with milk chocolate , which increased the sickly sweetness of the ice-cream to a nauseous intensity.
mixture
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On a surface lightly coated with icing sugar, shape chocolate mixture into finger-sized logs.
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Fold in the remaining cream with a large metal spoon. 3 Lightly whisk the egg white; fold into chocolate mixture .
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Slacken the chocolate mixture with one-third of them then fold in the rest.
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Cover the fingers with a third of the chocolate mixture .
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Whisk the egg whites until stiff, then fold into the chocolate mixture .
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Whisk the evaporated milk until it thickens, then fold into the chocolate mixture with the orange rind.
mousse
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We were offered fresh do-it-yourself salads, good local cheeses, strawberry tart and chocolate mousse .
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For the more sophisticated palate of adults, it's Häagen-Dazs ice cream and rich chocolate mousse .
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And she would bake a chocolate mousse torte.
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Top the whole thing off with a dessert of chocolate mousse in strawberry sauce and wash it down with a Bordeaux red.
sauce
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Drizzle over the chocolate sauce and top with the sliced strawberries.
■ VERB
buy
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He's bought Jessica flowers and chocolates right from the start.
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The Russell Stover box is pretty low because no one has been to the United States lately to buy chocolates .
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Quickly I bought three chocolate liqueur bottles and a small plastic figure of a stag.
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Or buying boxes of chocolates that taste like cream-filled cardboard.
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The majority of children who choose to leave the school campus at lunchtime buy crisps, chocolate and soft drinks.
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There had been a snack-dispensing machine in the entrance to the stand, so she would go and buy some chocolate .
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He shouldn't have bought that chocolate .
cover
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The dessert is covered in chocolate and topped with orange hearts.
eat
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The average consumer now eats six chocolate bars a week.
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Nana and I sat at her kitchen table eating Fannie Mae chocolates and playing gin rummy.
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I ate chocolates all the afternoon.
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She saw a young man squatting on a rucksack, eating a bar of chocolate and looking at the board.
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Ian rarely eats , preferring chocolate milk shakes, water, and his favourite tipple when pain dictates.
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How would you eat a bar of chocolate ?
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Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all?
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Do you eat sweets and chocolate ? 7.
melt
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Refrigerate till firm. Melt remaining chocolate , let cool slightly.
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Thwack the bottom but be careful not to get hot melted chocolate on your finger.
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For the topping, melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over simmering water or in the microwave.
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Make sure you melt the chocolate slowly, especially white chocolate.
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Meanwhile, melt the chocolate and allow to cool slightly.
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In nineteenth-century Paris young revellers would melt down chocolate and smear horrified passers-by with what they took to be excrement.
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Chill until set. 3 Melt the remaining plain chocolate and the white chocolate in separate bowls over hot water.
spread
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Delicious if spread with chocolate . recipe ends here Thanks,, it has proved acceptable on many occasions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lemon/fruit/chocolate etc drop
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Bob had a brown paper poke in his hand from which he was eating magic mushrooms as if they were lemon drops .
raspberry ripple/chocolate ripple etc
slab of cake/chocolate/meat etc
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Ahead of him a morose-looking man in a cardigan was sorting through slabs of meat in plastic containers.
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One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child, tucking in to great slabs of meat.
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She simply looks satisfied, as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted.
strawberry-flavoured/chocolate-flavoured etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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chocolate ice cream
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Britain has the highest chocolate consumption in the world, far more than any other country.
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Or buying boxes of chocolates that taste like cream-filled cardboard.
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She simply looks satisfied, as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted.
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Who needs more pasta when you can have chocolate and spun sugar?
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With chocolates and cigarettes and food and flowers.