noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a direct link/connection
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The campaign makes a direct link between global warming and the consumption of energy in the home.
an Internet connection
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a high-speed Internet connection
arrest sb in connection with sth
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Five youths were arrested in connection with the attack.
sever ties/relations/connections/links etc (with/between sb)
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The two countries severed diplomatic relations.
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She had severed all contact with her ex-husband.
tenuous link/connection etc
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The United Peace Alliance had only a tenuous connection with the organized Labour movement.
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The link between her family and the King’s is rather tenuous.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
causal
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There is also a causal connection between the two processes.
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There must also be a causal connection between disability and a substantial limitation on a major life activity.
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The idea that science does not involve causal connection also faces other difficulties, one of which can be given briefly.
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But even if there is not this causal connection , the fantasy does have a causal effect.
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The causal connection between the addictive use and the damaging consequences may be denied.
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The achievement of a goal will serve to reinforce the behaviour and so establish a causal connection between needs and goals.
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The causal connection between mood-altering substance or behaviour and the damaging consequences continues to be denied and the denial is intensified.
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There is no important causal connection between the reinforcing effect of a stimulus and the feelings to which it gives rise.
close
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This suggests again the close connection between property regulations and marriage patterns.
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It simply establishes a much closer connection between the process of socialization and its symbolic consequences.
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And there is a particularly close connection in the case we are considering.
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Domestic drama had a close connection with the growing spirit of dissatisfaction with existing social, economic, religious and political conditions.
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Campaigners boosted the impact of their warnings by drawing a close connection between the fly and the home.
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There is a close connection between the learning process and the development of a thinking, reasoning self.
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Because of its close connection with metaphor, simile may also be considered here.
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During the recent years after the war the university rose in national importance and always had a close connection with the bishop.
direct
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But there is little direct connection .
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The grand jury room is within a closed-off suite with a direct elevator connection to the basement garage.
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You can use a terminal program for direct connection to another user.
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But it was not until much later that any direct connection between asteroids and Earth could be established.
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There will be no direct connection between Musselburgh and the Musselburgh Bypass at this location.
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Testers will need a direct connection to the Internet, as opposed to the dial-up connections popular with home Internet subscribers.
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There is little direct connection , because many early ecologists were not interested in evolution.
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It is essential to see the direct connection between the production and distribution of goods in this unified process.
internet
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People might spend $ 300 for an Internet device once, but they pay for their Internet connection each month.
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If you have a full-time Internet connection , as growing numbers of people do at work, PointCast works seamlessly.
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Generally, the faster your Internet connection , the lower the latency.
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Among other things, the groups hopes to put an Internet connection and a printer in every village.
intimate
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Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.
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Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection , often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
necessary
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It is further easy to see that there is no necessary connection between subsidy-free prices and Ramsey-optional prices.
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The difficulty is finding any necessary connection between two cases.
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Normative positivism asserts what legal positivists deny, namely that there is a necessary connection between law and positive morality.
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Men. come and go in their lives, but there is no necessary connection between motherhood and marriage.
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The women were keen to deny the necessary connection between their work and technical hobbies.
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There is no necessary connection between evil and religion, either a logical one or on factual grounds.
strong
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However, his appointment would leave the Treasury without a strong connection to the financial markets.
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Although the players come from a variety of musical backgrounds, there is a strong Birmingham connection .
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These services are usually geographically based and have a strong local connection .
tenuous
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Collectors seem prepared to Hoover them up, however tenuous the connection with the liner.
■ NOUN
charge
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The Primetime connection charge is £65.
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Both operators are currently battling it out by making special offers on their primary rate connection charges .
■ VERB
arrest
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Profeto was arrested in connection only with the second killing but detectives said a link would soon be made.
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At least 42 people were arrested in connection with the caches, said Gen.
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A 40-year-old Liverpool man was arrested in connection with the assault.
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Some 40 people have since been arrested in connection with the case, and they include police and lower-level state officials.
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Six men have been arrested in connection with the violence.
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Davis was arrested in connection with the crime on Nov. 30, 1993.
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Eleven teenagers were arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor.
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Elmer Lee Nance, a 63-year-old drifter, was arrested last fall in connection with the murder.
break
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Seconds after he'd broken the connection , the phone rang again.
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Carl Kerenyi points out that this breaks the strict connection to grain, since no seed remains four months underground.
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She pulled out a penknife and started stabbing, hoping to break some vital connection .
deny
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Does this deny any connection between the physiology of black athletes and their sporting achievements?
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Aronoff, Riffe, other lawmakers and lobbyists adamantly deny any connection between campaign contributions, honoraria and legislative action.
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Hazel denied its connection with gender but related it to her class origin.
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Other academic analysts at Williamsburg denied any important connection between the use of welfare and the incidence of illegitimacy and family breakdown.
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Strauss-Kahn strongly denies any connection between Lagerfeld's tax debt and the handing over of the tape.
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Mrs Cons-Boutboul denies any connection with either murder.
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The women were keen to deny the necessary connection between their work and technical hobbies.
establish
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To establish a correlation is not necessarily to establish a connection .
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But a stubborn, argumentative child may try to draw you into too many debates as you try to establish a connection .
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The achievement of a goal will serve to reinforce the behaviour and so establish a causal connection between needs and goals.
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He says the city wants to establish a citywide internet connection through the cable system.
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As the analysis developed, our attention was drawn towards the way the document attempts to establish other forms of connection .
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It simply establishes a much closer connection between the process of socialization and its symbolic consequences.
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It can take full credit for the success it has achieved, establishing a clear connection between results and core organizational beliefs.
make
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It doesn't make any real connection with me.
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Under no circumstances make the connection to the negative battery terminal!
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The pipe connection from the pump was made and the electrical connection for the pump installed.
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It took me forty-three years to make the connection between Jack and Gatsby.
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She made the connection for him and gestured towards the phone at the end of the counter.
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Of course, making the connection more explicit will not impress everybody.
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Why had she not made the connection and what, in any case, was the connection?
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In most cases, setting up the software and making the connection is easy.
suggest
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This suggests again the close connection between property regulations and marriage patterns.
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They have suggested possible clinical connection with labile behavior in schizophrenia and disordered motor activity in Parkinsonian patients.
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Could this suggest a coal connection ?
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Now imagine, Weiser suggests , computation and connection embedded into the built environment to the same degree.
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Parallelism, which suggests a connection of meaning through an echo of form, does not have to be grammatical parallelism.
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They suggested that the newfound connection might explain the apparent link between muscle tension and severe headaches.
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It draws us towards other ignored aspects of existence usually called the psychic, esoteric or occult and suggests a possible connection .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
break a link/tie/connection
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Mr Eastwood argues it would break ties with local communities.
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Personnel changes confirmed the new liberalism in the Soviet Union and the attempt to break links with past behaviour.
intimate link/connection etc
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Heat had intimate links with chemistry, and optics with astronomy.
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Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
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Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.
necessary connection/consequence etc
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In neither ease was the omission a necessary consequence of the intellectual stance of the two schools.
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It is further easy to see that there is no necessary connection between subsidy-free prices and Ramsey-optional prices.
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Men. come and go in their lives, but there is no necessary connection between motherhood and marriage.
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Neither is upward mobility, rising income or independence a necessary consequence of their diligence.
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Normative positivism asserts what legal positivists deny, namely that there is a necessary connection between law and positive morality.
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That stratification would occur as a necessary consequence of the alienation of labour.
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The difficulty is finding any necessary connection between two cases.
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These are, however, necessary consequences of the division of labour and the consequent role of trust in social relationships.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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By the end of the decade, direct satellite connections for the Internet may be available.
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Carefully check all the electrical connections.
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Check the connections to make sure all the wires are in the correct places.
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I believe Joe's family has Spanish connections.
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I felt an immediate connection with Luisa as soon as I met her.
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Intelligent people tend to have strong connections between the neurons in their brains.
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Sheldon revealed the close connection between poverty and bad health.
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Shirley used her connections in the country music industry to get a recording contract.
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Students need to realize that there is a connection between education and their future.
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The two incidents might have something to do with each other, but I can't see the connection .
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There must be a loose connection somewhere - the phone isn't working.
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There must be a loose connection somewhere that's stopping it from working.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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None the less we are twinned with a small town in Hampshire with which we have no real connection .
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Now for them to find out there was a connection between you and Mahoney means they find out what sort of connection.
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People like him have severed all connection with the old rules.
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The attorney general's office did not say who they were or what connection they allegedly may have had with the escape.
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When holding their baby, they experienced an overwhelming feeling of loving connection .
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Whilst doing this Marvell can live in his own world which has no connection with anything external or real at all.