I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coat of paint (= a layer of paint that is put on something )
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Walls usually need at least two coats of paint.
a shirt/skirt/coat etc button
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Is this your coat button?
coat check
coat hanger
coat of arms
coat rack
coat stand/hat stand (= for hanging coats or hats on )
duffel coat
frock coat
morning coat
oilskin coat/jacket/trousers etc
sheepskin coat
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a sheepskin coat
sport coat
sports coat
trench coat
winter coat/shoes (= designed for winter )
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I need a new winter coat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
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Once on the streets, Lucenzo raised the collar of his heavy black coat , huddling into it.
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Pets with heavy coats may have their hair clipped to increase comfort and control fleas.
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Fur hats with ear muffs, heavy fur coats , fur-lined boots.
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He walked to the front of the large auditorium still wearing his heavy coat and black felt bowler.
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She'd be tucked beneath the blanket and the heavy coat and watching Gloria put on her make-up before she went out.
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The little animals though fat were lithe; they were heavy , their coats shone, opulent and dense.
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Cora-Beth had a warm travelling-rug wrapped round her legs, and they were both muffled in heavy , fur-lined coats and caps.
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There were kids everywhere in heavy coats , girls carrying roller skates, posse boys in hats carrying sticks.
long
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A Yek in the long coat of a merchant came out of the door of the house.
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Women in head scarves and long coats take a seat on the left side of the synagogue.
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Actual long coats , although difficult to spot at this age, will show in fluffy long hairs on the ears in particular.
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He walked to the corner, gathering up his long Marine coat , doing up the buttons and neck flap.
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A man in a long white coat came scurrying out and opened the back of the ambulance.
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Note the small round shields and long mail coats .
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What wears a long coat and pants in the summer?
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No, he can not remember-neither Marita nor her long , b1ue coat .
new
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I needed a new winter coat , and did not have the skill that Wendy had to make one out of a blanket.
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When I married Martin, he paid off all my debts, poor dear, and bought me a new winter coat .
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Every time the quid gets gang-banged on the international exchange, all the Arab chicks get a new fur coat .
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To the girls it was as if she had announced a trip or the purchase of a new coat .
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A new outfit of coat and apron costs £450.
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It was a New York coat .
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Brown stains appeared on the lapel of his new coat .
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I realized that Minna was wearing an elegant new yellowish fur coat .
old
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I found an old coat in the flea market and cut the good bits out.
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The insurance companies hid behind my old coats and baggy pants and my boots with the run-over heels.
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She sat sadly, in her old camel coat and her feathered hat, hearing the words.
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All the children huddled under an old coat made of animal skins, which was full of lice.
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He himself was thin and pale from illness, and was lying on the bed, wrapped in an old coat .
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Then she put on her old brown coat , and her old brown hat, turned, and left the room.
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She's all wrapped up warm with this big old coat on.
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That dreadful, badly cut shabby old coat and skirt!
thick
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Lucy shivered in her thick coat and scarf.
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Their hair was in raggedy patches, for they were molting their thick winter coats .
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Most are vulnerable to the cold, since they can not grow long hair and a thick insulating coat .
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Take the example of a polar bear, which is equipped with a thick coat of white fur.
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He was feeling the clammy cold that seemed to penetrate his thick coat and chill his bones.
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If it is cold the animals come to have thick coats of hair, or feathers.
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This thick coat , however, is replaced in warmer climates by short hair.
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The thick shaggy coat of the mountain goat prepares it for the rigours of the Rocky Mountains' winter.
■ NOUN
duffel
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Cocteau in a duffel coat with Chanel.
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She was wearing a navy blue duffel coat with a tartan-lined hood, black stockings and pointed shoes with very high heels.
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Wearing a duffel coat over yesterday's military outfit, he was feeding hazelnuts to a squirrel.
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Dwarfing his bicycle, he hunched over the handlebars, his duffel coat in constant danger of tangling with the spokes.
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Three of the youths, aged 16-20, wore black duffel coats with the hoods pulled up to hide their faces.
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His hair was rumpled, and the toggles on his duffel coat were done up wrong.
frock
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The more extreme designers have turned the jacket into a frock coat , emphasizing the Edwardian feel.
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There were men in frock coats and bowler hats.
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He, too, wore a black top hat, a black frock coat and black trousers.
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Grant met them in a worn black frock coat and listened politely.
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Meanwhile look out for the new Fashion Editor Edwardian-style frock coats with their theatrical, dandyish look.
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He was a cheery chap who wore a frock coat and a soiled black felt hat which had seen better days.
fur
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He was warmly wrapped up in a fur coat and had gloves on.
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I took him from her, lay him on the fur coat and pressed his chest with my palms.
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Perhaps they looked a little incongruous sitting in their smart hats and fur coats , talking more loudly than anybody else.
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He ought to have bought her a fat fur coat .
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DeFries gave me a fur coat .
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Mrs Kulass put on a ratty fur coat , a shabby felt hat, and put her hands inside an old muff.
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Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.
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Like they used to do with the fur coats .
hanger
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Application Tell the students that chimes can be made by using a metal spoon instead of a coat hanger .
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Foam padding, often used on coat hangers , is not ideal.
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The vibrations you heard traveled through the metal coat hanger , then through the string and the pencils to your ear drum.
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I think they must make those figures by photographing a pile of coat hangers on the floor.
lab
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In obligatory white lab coat and cotton cap he was touring the Boots factory in Airdrie.
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Diane came back without the lab coat .
leather
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Two Luftwaffe officers in blue leather coats were standing beside it.
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There were two on duty, both in dark brown, ankle-length, leather coats .
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He had on a leather trilby and a single breasted leather coat with a tie belt.
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He wore a black leather coat , too young for him if he had looked his age.
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A man in a fur hat, long black leather coat , white shirt and silver tie got into the carriage.
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She has shoulder-length blonde hair and wears an expensive-looking leather coat .
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Frick was proud as he walked between them, his long black leather coat reaching to the ground.
mink
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Hairs from her mink coat had been found in the gazebo by the pond.
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He is a dandy-looking dude too, with slick black ponytail and, always, a full-length mink coat .
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His wife, Mary Rose, slipped into a mink coat as they prepared to disembark.
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Somehow it sounds even more so coming from a ballerina sitting in full-length black mink coat and twiddling with diamond earrings.
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She had covered the mink coat with a nylon overall.
morning
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Jack and best man Nelson Gabriel were devastatingly handsome in their grey morning coats .
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He rooted around in his coat pocket until he found the address that Tony Jones had given him.
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He put several grenades in the coat pocket , and a machine gun into a long pocket inside the coat.
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I pat down coat pockets , dig through backpacks and open drawers until I find it.
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Ludo and I turn our collars up against the chill April evening, and ram our hands in our coat pockets .
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From his suit coat pocket he takes a Mont Blanc pen, leans forward, then draws two intricate kanji characters.
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He'd just remembered he had a couple of toffees in his oilskin coat pocket .
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Slumping down into his seat, he took a silver flask from his coat pocket .
sheepskin
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He was wearing a brown imitation sheepskin coat .
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He was still dark from his summer tan, and wore a short sheepskin coat and a shirt with an open collar.
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What emerged from this astonishing machine was Eric, wearing a wonderful sheepskin coat and boots.
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The woman wore a sheepskin coat that reached to her calves.
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A sheepskin coat was the skinhead status symbol.
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She stood up and shrugged the sheepskin coat from her shoulders, hanging it from the hook behind the door.
sport
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He always wears a sports coat and flannels and a pinned tie.
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The customer was wearing a sport coat with checks so large Fogarty thought of a horse blanket.
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The other in his 30's, with ginger hair and moustache and a tweed sports coat .
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Just trust me on this, and put your sport coat on.
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Also, he was wearing his new sport coat .
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Nichols sat stone-faced, dressed in a sport coat and blue shirt.
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We had a beatnik poet who wore salami patches on his tweed sport coat .
trench
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He had a black trench coat on and his right hand was deep inside the right pocket.
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It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat .
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Immediately, they heard raised voices and saw that the porter was engaged in an altercation with two men in trench coats .
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Check any narrow-minded seriousness at the door with your urban trench coat and get ready for an absolute annihilation of bourgeois civility.
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He was wearing a trench coat , military style with wide lapels, the collar turned up, belted.
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Purple Label sportswear is filled with chocolate-colored suede trench coats , gray pinstriped cashmere slacks, cashmere sweaters and cashmere overcoats.
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He carried his trench coat over his arm.
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No cocktail hat, no military decorations, no trench coat actually worn in the trenches.
winter
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He's got his big winter coat on with silver buttons and his tall hat.
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When I married Martin, he paid off all my debts, poor dear, and bought me a new winter coat .
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The humans had grown their winter coats , and the high buildings trembled in the tight grip of their stress equations.
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She could fill the second suitcase with her winter coat .
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In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders.
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Their hair was in raggedy patches, for they were molting their thick winter coats .
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In addition, a wintry spell before the Cesarewitch was prompting our runners to start donning their winter coats before they set off.
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Amy needs shoes, boots, a winter coat .
■ VERB
apply
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I then applied three thin coats of oil primer for my ground.
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Then apply a coat of bituminous primer and bed a strip of self-adhesive flashing tape along it.
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After this time, apply a second coat and repeat the drying procedure.
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This applies particularly to your coat .
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When varnish is completely dry, apply a final top coat of colourless varnish.
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The stucco was applied in several coats to a thickness of up to three inches.
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When dry apply two coats of acrylic varnish, leaving to dry between coats.
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There is just time to apply a coat before the winter weather really sets in.
button
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It was a drizzling spring afternoon and I paused on the steps to button my coat .
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He buttoned up his Marine coat and walked down Prospect Avenue to where his Baby was parked.
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Within a few minutes of this treatment being given, he was able to button up his coat .
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I adjusted my tie and buttoned up the coat which, a little while later, I would be unbuttoning.
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She makes a motion to button my coat , but I am already starting down the path.
buy
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He offered to buy her a coat .
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They bought fur coats and all that stuff.
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Calculations have shown that a two child family receiving supplementary benefit could buy a woman's coat only once every 15 years.
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Doris Lupton remembers her first trip vividly: My friend and I bought new coats before we went.
dress
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He was dressed in a white coat - the sort that scientists wear.
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Nichols sat stone-faced, dressed in a sport coat and blue shirt.
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He could see that the singer wasn't especially old or badly dressed under the coat .
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He noticed that the ghost was smartly dressed in a cut-away coat with gilt buttons, a stand-up collar and Scotch cap.
hang
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But he was hanging up her coat and appeared not to notice the edge on her voice.
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She was accustomed to hanging up her own coat .
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She walked down a stone staircase to a basement where you could hang your coat .
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Ellen asked, hanging their coats in the closet.
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He hangs up his camelhair coat in the anteroom that connects his office with Shirley's and passes into the former.
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Put your hat and gloves right here in the bin. Hang your coat on this peg.
pull
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We pull on our coats with bleary yanks as the alcohol works its universal spell, and bump out the door.
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He pulled cautiously on my coat , his eyes fixed on my face.
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She shivered, pulling the coat closer round herself.
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When I pull on my coat , the tears are streaming down my face.
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She shrugged and pulled her coat tighter around her.
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I saw Sir Henry pull his coat closer round him.
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The wind was cold, and he pulled his thin coat around him.
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I pulled up my coat collar and sprinted along the platform and into the shelter of the waiting room.
put
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I put on my coat and leave.
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At dusk we put on our coats again and go out.
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Barry's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room, and put her coat on.
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Jack put on his coat and sat alongside Elaine.
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Lucy collected her stuff together and put on her coat and said goodnight, but she didn't leave.
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Frank put his coat across the back of the chair.
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He had difficulty putting on his coat .
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A steward opened the door and the passengers started putting on their coats and hats.
take
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For the time being he had the dressing-room to himself, and he took from his coat pocket Nyrene's last letter.
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A servant helped Charles take off his coat .
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In just forty-five seconds he would get up from his desk, take his coat and walk past his secretary.
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Adrienne paused to scan her face before taking her coat and hanging it in the closet.
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He'd been gone for donkey's years and he wanted to take off his coat and sit down.
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Miguel walked into his room, crashing down on to his mat without the strength to take off his coat .
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He would arrive at her door and they would begin right away, sometimes before he took his coat off.
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She took her coat off and laid it on the bed.
throw
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Then, throwing on his coat , he ventured out again.
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Tobie exclaimed, throwing off her coat and curling up on the sofa.
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Blanche reappeared just after four, throwing off her coat and beckoning Dexter into her office in the same gesture.
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She threw off her coat , twirled off the scarf, sat on the bed to undo her sneakers.
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She stepped into the room and went to stand by the armchair where he had so carelessly thrown his coat .
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Mattie said, throwing off her coat .
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Maybe you have to throw a coat over your nightie and pick them up from miles away in the car.
wear
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Some women wear fur coats , others puffa jackets and boots.
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She wore a black coat and had a Soviet Railway badge pinned to her black hat.
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I thought you guys all wore those penguin coats .
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For the first time I saw how worn his coat was.
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Her daughter was standing just inside the door, wearing her coat , hat and walking shoes.
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Tape of the scene shot by news helicopters show a distraught woman, driving a Jaguar, wearing a fur coat .
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What emerged from this astonishing machine was Eric, wearing a wonderful sheepskin coat and boots.
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The road snakes along hills wearing premature coats of green.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coat check/hat check
cut your coat according to your cloth
full-length skirt/dress/coat etc
metal-coated/plastic-coated etc
midi skirt/dress/coat
white-coated/fur-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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her heavy winter coat
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Huskies have a nice thick coat .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anton won his suit and coat .
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Forty-four little hands gather up coats and lunch boxes and forty-four little feet head down the hall to go home.
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He was dressed in a white coat - the sort that scientists wear.
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I began thwacking the back of his coat and the snow puffed into the air.
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I think they must make those figures by photographing a pile of coat hangers on the floor.
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In his coat , Winchell looks like a Dickensian undertaker; he embarrasses me.
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When she saw where I was sitting she pushed her hands in her coat pockets and ambled over on her shaky heels.
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Women in head scarves and long coats take a seat on the left side of the synagogue.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
oil
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Then the whole thing is cooked slowly in a nonstick pan lightly coated with olive oil or clarified butter.
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Hordes of aphids twinkled like fireflies, until the willow branches and leaves seemed coated with oil .
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Add oregano and rice, stirring to coat rice with oil .
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Using a pastry brush, coat lightly with corn oil .
sugar
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Candied peel and angelica are coated in a thick sugar syrup, then dried.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coat check/hat check
full-length skirt/dress/coat etc
metal-coated/plastic-coated etc
midi skirt/dress/coat
white-coated/fur-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A special machine coats the nuts with chocolate.
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Dust coated all of the furniture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dip in tinted coconut to coat frosting.
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Dip quail in cornstarch mixture until evenly coated.
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Increased urinary levels of arsenic and mercury will coat the copper with black and silvery deposits, respectively.
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Make sure the truffles are completely coated in chocolate.
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Use a good quality paint or varnish brush, and the size should be suitable for the surface being coated.
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When first grown, the top of the fungus is coated in a black sticky jelly containing spores.