verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cultivated field (= one with crops growing on it )
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The valley is an area of lush greenery and cultivated fields.
cultivate an image (= try to encourage or develop an image )
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He was trying to cultivate an image of himself as an intellectual.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
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That's why you carefully cultivate eccentric habits to set you apart from others.
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This evolution needs to be carefully cultivated .
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He's spent 12 months planning and carefully cultivating what he hopes will be prize blooms.
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The citizens of Athens recognized that responsible citizenship would not come about automatically; it had to be carefully cultivated .
■ NOUN
aquarium
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Only V. dubyana is frequently cultivated as a decorative aquarium plant.
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This is also true for plants cultivated in the aquarium , except those species forming rhizomes.
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Many of them have gotten into aquarium literature, although they can not be cultivated in the aquarium.
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It can not be cultivated in the aquarium .
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This plant has been known for 60 years but has not yet been cultivated extensively in the aquarium .
attitude
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They haven't cultivated the attitude that by serving you they're doing you a favour.
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I can actively cultivate an attitude of engagement.
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In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers.
garden
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The Jorgensens bake lasagne in a solar oven, keep their showers short and cultivate an organic garden in their backyard.
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Love must be the most beautiful flower than can be cultivated in transcendent garden of the mind.
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Just as methods of cultivating a garden change over time, practices develop from season to season.
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But they are not merely carriages for we have reached the stage when the soil must be cultivated into gardens .
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I sat, surrounded by the papers, by the secrets she had guarded and cultivated like a garden .
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In his case, it was a farming image, though he was incapable of cultivating the smallest back garden .
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But all this is reversed for a cultivated garden , where not varied but controlled conditions are required.
image
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She did not want to cultivate the snob image .
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He cultivates this image of himself as the defender of the oppressed.
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Therefore it is a matter of cultivating the interior images which last as long as the human being lives.
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Though Catherine assiduously cultivated an image of absolute authority. she was well aware of the limitations on her own power.
land
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Farmers fled to work as itinerant merchants; the amount of cultivated grain land shrank from 12,350 acres to less than 5,000.
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Today, we have only about two acres of cultivated land per person.
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Traditionally the landowner need not cultivate the land intensively to provide sufficient to maintain prestige and a very good life-style.
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Our people have lived on and cultivated the bottom lands along the Missouri River for many hundreds of years.
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Unlike outright slaves, they maintained themselves by cultivating the land conditionally allotted to them by their master.
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Coastal land may be included in the future, but cultivated land, parks and gardens, woodland and riversides are excluded.
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Henrique Alemão encouraged many people to come and settle to cultivate his extensive land .
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Productive activity was carried out by peasants, who lived on and cultivated the land which was controlled by the feudal lords.
plant
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She would dig and cultivate her plants with great gusto and had one of the finest gardens in the Institute compound.
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Botanists praise the many qualities of the hellebore, but relatively few gardeners cultivate the plant .
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They show that the crucial shift to self-fertilization in the cultivated plant involves but a single gene.
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In greenhouse or field, pollen and egg from wild tomatoes were tested for the ability to cross with cultivated plants .
relationship
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Maybe you have cultivated a good relationship with your dealer.
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My husband and I cultivated a relationship with our elderly childless neighbors, exchanging dinners and visits.
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Vic inherited her from his predecessor, who had evidently cultivated an informal working relationship .
species
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They are suitable aquarium plants and are cultivated like Cryptocoryne species in a medium-rich substratum and water that is not too acid.
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Successful aquarists often cultivate this species on decorative roots together with fish of the genus Aphyosemion.
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Among all the cultivated species of Hygrophila it is the one best adapted to submersed existence.
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It is the most cultivated medium-size species .
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Commonly cultivated species can be obtained easily in florist shops.
■ VERB
try
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He tried to cultivate a reputation for dangerous magical power by engaging in narcotic shamanistic seances.
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He tried on a newly cultivated smile and looked across the boat at Hattie Johnson with it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Baseball teams spend a lot on cultivating new talent.
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Dozens of eucalyptus species are cultivated in the arboretum.
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Gradually it was found more profitable to cultivate vines and olives rather than grain.
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He's spent years cultivating a knowledge of art.
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Her marriage allowed her to cultivate friendships with the Paris literary elite.
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Minnesota has long cultivated its cultural image.
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Nearer the coast, huge areas of land are given over to cultivating tomatoes.
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Population growth is causing people to clear more woodland so that they can cultivate the land.
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The tribe cultivated the land and grew the food.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Christoffers has cultivated a network among antiques dealers, collectors and museum staff who will allow her to copy their prize pieces.
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Converse purchased a pint of Gold Leaf Cognac to cultivate the management.
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He also cultivates an amiable sort of ruthlessness.
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In greenhouse or field, pollen and egg from wild tomatoes were tested for the ability to cross with cultivated plants.
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Specimens cultivated under this name for some forty to fifty years have never flowered.
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The most sophisticated farmers are the leaf-cutting ants, which cultivate fungus on fresh vegetation thanks to an assembly-line of specialised castes.
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The second species, R. humilis, has been imported and is cultivated in aquariums and terrariums.