verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a consuming interest (= a very strong feeling of interest )
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Roland had a consuming interest in cricket.
a consuming passion (= a very strong interest, or something you are very interested in )
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The young Wordsworth had a consuming passion for poetry.
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For years, acting and the stage had been his consuming passion.
be consumed with/racked with/overwhelmed by guilt (= feel very guilty )
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Later he was horrified that he had hit her, and was racked by guilt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The meal was consumed as rapidly as was comfortable within 15 minutes or stopped when satiation occurred.
more
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Triangle 145 indicates the welfare losses that are experienced by individual B because he is consuming more than he would otherwise choose.
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None of the three drives consumed more than 2: 25.
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Basic provision of shelter, heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants.
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People save, or refrain from consumption, today in order to consume more tomorrow.
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When eating flat-out, the beast easily consumes more than its own weight in plants every day.
■ NOUN
alcohol
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The patient was a non-smoker and did not consume alcohol .
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If you are doing covert sensitization on an outpatient basis, your client could be consuming alcohol prior to treatment.
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Home Office ministers and anti-drink campaigners were concerned that extended hours could encourage people to consume alcohol .
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Adult men consume most of the alcohol in the country.
amount
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Economic development is measured using the amount of energy consumed in any given year.
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The second question is whether counsellees want to give up drinking, or at least to reduce the amount consumed .
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As the ageing body loses its ability to cope with alcohol, the amount that can be consumed has to be reduced.
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The emphasis then is on defining that amount which can be consumed without impairing capital.
calorie
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People consumed fewer calories without even trying to do so.
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We consume these calories in the form of food and use them up in maintaining the body's functions and movements.
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If you are losing weight, then you are not consuming sufficient calories daily.
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We should always consume sufficient calories to keep the metabolism buoyant.
energy
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He did not consider the quantity of valuable raw materials and energy that had been consumed in the fridge's manufacture.
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How much extra energy is consumed in pulverizing the coal to say 90 percent through 320 mesh? 2.
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The plant, operated by Oxford Energy Co, will consume 10 million tyres a year.
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Economic development is measured using the amount of energy consumed in any given year.
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Essentially three things can happen to the energy we consume: 1.
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Most of the energy we consume is used up by our bodies.
fire
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In 1541 a fire consumed most of the town and much of the castle.
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Rabindranath Tagore had reprovingly warned him that the fire that consumed foreign clothing might also inflame minds, and Gandhi was afraid.
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The fire spread rapidly, consuming many of the pathetic homes that had been erected.
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The confrontation ended April 19 with a fire that consumed the compound and killed Koresh and about 80 of his followers.
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If left unchecked, the fire could consume 24 million tonnes of coal in the next 100 years.
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The fire soon consumed the logs, and the rebels planted their colors there.
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Years like that don't matter, only the minutes before the fire that consumes the world.
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A Luciferian fire was consuming you - which means that at that moment you were bearing light.
food
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No-one forces them to undertake work which will use more energy than the food they consume can replace.
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While the insects thrive, residues from years of spraying are showing up in the water and food that humans consume .
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The vitamin B complex enables the body to make full use of the food consumed .
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What kinds of food do you consume ?
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A thousand million fast foods are being consumed in Britain alone every year.
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Although farming seems like an international enterprise, most food is consumed in the country where it was produced.
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For example, energy is needed to metabolise the food we consume .
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Vast quantities of beer and food were being consumed .
lot
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System requirements Browsers consume a lot of disk space, especially the full installations of Internet Explorer with all the added accessories.
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Although they consume lots of time, money, and effort, minimizing techniques are seldom effective in the long term.
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We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience.
meal
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How long does it take you to consume a meal ?
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Each subject was asked to consume the meal in less than 10 minutes.
passion
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You can hardly claim she was consumed by passion .
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Her heart clenched inside her as she thought of Guido and the dizzy, consuming passions he aroused in her.
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And it's more fun now than when we were consumed by white-hot passion .
people
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Many people consume a good deal of sugar in drinks.
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The people consuming the caffeine demonstrated tolerance in several ways.
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So however green-tinted companies become they are unlikely to encourage people to consume less.
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However, this will only be a problem for those rare people who consume no animal products whatsoever.
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Home Office ministers and anti-drink campaigners were concerned that extended hours could encourage people to consume alcohol.
percent
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They consume 83 percent of the state's water but contribute only 3 percent to the state's economy.
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By 1991, Medicaid consumed 20 percent of Massachusetts' entire budget.
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Its administration consumes more than 5 percent . of its schools budget.
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The United States consumes 25 percent of all the energy used in the world each year.
product
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Simultaneously, advertisements offer us pictures of ourselves, as we might be if we consume the product .
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The algae consumed waste products from the reef and under the intense artificial sunlight they proliferated in stringy green mats.
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Sadly some customers don't consume their products sensibly and drink-driving is a prime example.
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I can not consume the products of that department in their natural form, whilst the products of Dept.
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Nevertheless, the size and wealth of London as a centre for consuming the products of the new industries was important.
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However, this will only be a problem for those rare people who consume no animal products whatsoever.
propensity
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National income and the average propensity to consume in the United States, 1869- 1928.
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It stabilised demand by income transfers to those who had a high propensity to consume .
quantity
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Therefore they may actually lose weight even though apparently consuming large quantities of food.
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We sum vertically at a given quantity because everyone consumes the same quantity of a public good by definition.
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To consume the same quantity of' calories in the form of whole oranges you would have to eat about five of them.
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An in-kind transfer of good X enables her to consume a quantity 17 of good X at no cost.
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It is certainly not something you would consume in any great quantity .
time
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By the time she had consumed apple pie and ice-cream she felt almost restored.
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What may be less obvious is how time consuming , expensive, and risky it is to alter such arrangements.
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It was an expensive and time consuming task to remove it.
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One could never, in practice, complete such a translation; it would be much too time consuming and difficult.
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Cooking such small amounts of food can be fiddly and time consuming so try freezing baby-sized portions in ice cube trays.
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But Summerlee was not to be found, and further time was consumed in writing a note for him.
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Freeing teachers from time consuming domestic tasks such as tidying, cleaning and repairing equipment?
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The chestnuts must be peeled first, which is a little time consuming but worth the effort.
water
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Risers are used where the slope of the ground is steep and consume much water when boats are ascending.
■ VERB
produce
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In equilibrium at E the quantity Q is produced and consumed .
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The songs of Whitman were drowned out in the drone of the new producing . consuming machinery.
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This becomes evident when consideration is given to the processes by which these styles are produced and consumed .
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These public goods can only be produced and consumed economically on a collective basis.
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How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In order to survive human beings need to consume food and water.
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Industrialized countries consume natural resources in huge quantities.
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People who consume large amounts of animal fats are more likely to get cancer and heart disease.
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The college permits students who are 21 or older to consume alcoholic beverages in their dorm rooms.
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The US imports 45% of the oil that it consumes.
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This year, health care costs will consume one-eighth of the average family's income.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 1910 the inhabitants of Britain consumed a million tons of meat over and above home produce.
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For example, how many calories a day do you consume ?
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Like many consumed by a powerful love, he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative.
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More actual cheese will be consumed than ever before.
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The egg, if injected, would hatch into a wasp grub that would consume the caterpillar from the inside.
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The pathologist at the inquest said that Zyban could have reacted with the alcohol James had consumed.
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Those in the Peck case consumed months.