I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dental disease/problems/decay etc
tooth decay
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Brushing regularly helps prevent tooth decay.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
begin
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These isotopes begin to decay as soon as the meteorites enter the Earth's atmosphere, where they become shielded from cosmic rays.
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The vegetation within, protected from the dry air, begins to decay and the mound starts to warm.
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The elementary particles known as protons, which live at the heart of every atom, will begin to decay .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Freezing conditions will stop most things from decaying.
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If you eat too many sweets, it'll make your teeth decay .
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In a warm climate where flesh decays rapidly, there is more risk of infection from dead animals.
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Some of the apples lying on the ground had already begun to decay .
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The decaying body of a man was found in a vacant warehouse.
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the decaying moral values of American society
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This decaying city was once the busiest port in the world.
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A few species laid eggs beneath mounds of rotten vegetation that warmed as it decayed.
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Bones signify the eternal being which does not decay .
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However, objects decay despite our best efforts to conserve them.
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In one path, the 40K decays to a calcium isotope, 40Ca.
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It decays by a scheme that has two paths.
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Now even elections seem to be decaying.
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The buildings still stand, slowly decaying, without past or future, or any links with the surrounding land.
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There was now not the slightest doubt that Hsu was decaying and losing her structural integrity.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dental
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More than half have dental decay in their milk teeth, and she believes that the problem is increasing.
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Hypoplastic teeth with advanced dental decay are also observed.
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We found no association between extent of active dental decay and risk of coronary heart disease.
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My father, a dentist of the old school, believed that milk encouraged dental decay .
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A fluoride mouth wash will help to prevent dental decay .
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Water fluoridation costing £260,000 is to restart to protect against dental decay in the region.
moral
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Amid this moral decay , religious, ethnic and caste crusades have a growing appeal.
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D., there began to appear on the Roman horizon disturbing signs of cultural decline and moral decay .
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But he insisted that organized religion needed to meet the challenge of social unrest and moral decay .
radioactive
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Like all types of radioactive decay the process takes place at a constant rate, independent of all environmental conditions.
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The ratios change over time as potassium undergoes radioactive decay and emits argon gas.
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One becquerel is equal to one radioactive decay per second.
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Antimatter is also produced by radioactive decay .
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The time taken for half of the atoms of a radioactive isotope to decay is called its half-life.
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Helium is also made by radioactive decay of uranium and thorium, both of which decay by emission of alpha particles.
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This is a dating method based on the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium.
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This helium produced by radioactive decay , called radiogenic helium, consists of pure 4He.
urban
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Below us was the battle zone, 464 square miles of urban decay , whose every street was a border to some one.
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However as the number of jobs in Vickers decreased the area underwent serious urban decay .
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One can forget about the problems of urban decay even yet up there.
■ NOUN
beta
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The neutrino is produced in the beta decay of nuclei, when a neutron converts into a proton, and an electron.
rate
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Then the observable quantity, the orbital decay rate . is.
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As soon as the sample is removed from the vicinity of the main mass, its decay rate drops.
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The excellent agreement between the predicted and observed orbital decay rates has a double significance.
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Generally speaking, instability thresholds are lower than in the quasi-Lorenz system, and the restrictions on decay rates less severe.
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This slow decay rate results in a poor age estimate.
tooth
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But half the sugar in the drink came from the milk and was not thought to cause tooth decay .
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Kleinberg says that fluoride, which is in most drinking water and toothpaste, protects against 30 percent of tooth decay .
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In some parts of the country fluoride is added to the water to help prevent tooth decay .
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Some toothpaste manufacturers force feed sweets to monkeys to study tooth decay .
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The advice was not restricted to the prevention of tooth decay .
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Urine was recommended as a mouthwash because its acidity was thought to prevent tooth decay !
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The University of Florida researcher has come up with a brilliantly simple way to tackle tooth decay .
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Professor Keen denied yesterday that natural sugars were a significant cause of tooth decay .
■ VERB
fall
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The art of the Minoan seal cutters, like other aspects of the culture, was falling gradually into decay .
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From the time of Laurence little work was carried out on the Palace and it was again allowed to fall into decay .
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He goes away, rejecting the power he has assumed, hoping the creation will fall back into decay .
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Education, health and other social services fell yet faster into decay .
prevent
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In some parts of the country fluoride is added to the water to help prevent tooth decay .
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In respect of the dead the idea was to prevent decay of the body.
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Urine was recommended as a mouthwash because its acidity was thought to prevent tooth decay !
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A fluoride mouth wash will help to prevent dental decay .
produce
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For example, if groundwater solutions had dissolved some of the lead produced by uranium decay , the age would be underestimated.
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The neutrino is produced in the beta decay of nuclei, when a neutron converts into a proton, and an electron.
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Antimatter is also produced by radioactive decay .
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The resultant flow relieves the tension and produces the observed stress decay .
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This helium produced by radioactive decay , called radiogenic helium, consists of pure 4He.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brushing your teeth regularly helps to fight against tooth decay .
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I have noticed decay in some of the floorboards.
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the decay of the central government in Russia
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Tiny organisms that live in the soil assist the process of decay .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay .
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And it's the bodily imperfections and decay which lead us to desire a permanence of the human essence.
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But nomatterwhat cosmetics we use, what exercises we do, the decay of our bodies moves inexorably forward.
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Its rough surface traps the microflora responsible for halitosis and tooth decay .
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Now, however, the great Latin cities fell prey to widespread depopulation, economic decline, and physical decay .
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The decay constant F includes any process that destroys c1, c2 or their correlation.
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Without renewal, decay becomes irredeemable.