noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crown colony
penal colony/settlement (= a special area of land where prisoners are kept )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Skomer hosts about 100,000 pairs, the largest colony in the world.
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Later, they went regularly to Dhapa, the large leprosy colony in Calcutta, where they tended the sick.
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Ants are called social insects because they live in large colonies .
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High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles, reputedly site of the world's second largest seal colony .
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Unlike zoanthids, where large colonies can form by a similar process, the young mushroom polyps separate from the parent completely.
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Nearly everything else follows the ground plan of the later, and much larger , colony base station.
leper
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We are like the people of a leper colony .
new
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Some of these have wings and fly away to start new colonies of aphids on other plants.
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The Ionionas undertook the exploration of the seas, founded new colonies , and immersed themselves in the arts.
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Left: Severed portions of Sinularia growing in an aquarium to form new colonies .
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In a commune on the outskirts of the city, we saw a new colony of houses being built.
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Termites and ants do it seasonally when the time comes for them to mate, disperse and set up new colonies .
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There were twenty people, including children, in this new colony , and they were all slaughtered.
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Finally he is said to have settled at Elea, a new colony south of Paestum.
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The new colonies , in contrast, have many more female birds.
penal
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You play Ripley, who has to despatch hordes of alien-infested humans from an underground penal colony .
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Leper colonies are only one entry in this classification of special communities; certain penal colonies would be another.
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He was appointed superintendent of the penal colony on Norfolk Island in 1840.
small
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It is also occasionally found growing in small colonies in shallower parts of lakes with gentle water turbulence.
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A small colony nested on the basalt rock face.
■ NOUN
ant
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Every ant colony has its own clone of fungi, distinct from that on the neighbouring farm.
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The McPhillips' home was filled with jars and jars of sand, leaves, and ant colonies .
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He will speak on slavery in ant colonies .
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Yet, the ant colony moves.
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Did Laboulbeniales first arrive in ant colonies on the backs of invading commensals and parasites?
breeding
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In open country, trees becomes sites for breeding colonies which may also facilitate synchronization of breeding.
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A plastic dustbin with breeding colony on to which organic waste is showered.
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They are condemned to a life of misery in cramped breeding colonies .
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Whenever possible breeding colony staff should not be involved with other animals of a potentially lower health status.
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The crest is displayed during courtship encounters at breeding colonies .
■ VERB
become
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In open country, trees becomes sites for breeding colonies which may also facilitate synchronization of breeding.
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The road itself had become a colony of residents specializing in theatrical and allied activities.
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In summer the estate became the home of colonies of house martins and swallows.
breed
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Females come ashore to form breeding colonies , and each will give birth to a single white-coated pup.
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Grain- and seed-eaters of grassland and savannah were gregarious and tended to breed in colonies .
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Being strongly territorial they have less need for this when compared with birds breeding in tightly packed colonies .
establish
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They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
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Calvert shared his father's interest in the new world and was actively involved in his effort to establish a colony .
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In 1679 the territory of New Hampshire was carved out of it, and was established as a separate colony .
found
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It is also occasionally found growing in small colonies in shallower parts of lakes with gentle water turbulence.
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In 1681 the Quaker William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania.
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Bee warned: Thousands of beehives are at risk after a deadly parasite was found in more colonies , experts warned yesterday.
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The Ionionas undertook the exploration of the seas, founded new colonies , and immersed themselves in the arts.
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On the other side of the peninsula we found colonies of seals and penguins.
live
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A few live in huge colonies on volcanoes, their eggs hatched by the earth's heat.
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Many birds live in colonies but mate monogamously within the colony.
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Ants are called social insects because they live in large colonies .
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In the 1770s few Catholics lived in the colonies .
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So do the million and a half termites living in the colony .
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The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands.
run
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There was a lot wrong with the way the corporations ran the colonies .
set
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Termites and ants do it seasonally when the time comes for them to mate, disperse and set up new colonies .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a nudist colony
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an ant colony
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an artists' colony on the East Coast
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Fighting is continuing in the former Belgian colony .
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In 1980, the former British colony of Rhodesia gained independence as the Republic of Zimbabwe.
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Many people who came to the colonies were escaping religious persecution.
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The United States was once a colony of Great Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bishop had known what was happening: the Guild of Adjudicators was famed and feared in equal measure amongst the Earth colonies.
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By the mid 1960s most colonies had won their independence and by the mid 1970s the world was virtually free of colonies.
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He could throw his lot in with the Lord General, and perhaps become a governor of one of the colony worlds.
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In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life.
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Others, like sponges, consisted of a colony of cells with a porous skeleton.
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Today Pine Gap looks like an advance moon colony in the Sea of Tranquillity.
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When the colony was discovered eighteen years later, ten of the women had survived and only one of the men.