I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coastal/desert/mountain etc environment
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The storm caused significant damage to the coastal environment.
a desert area
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The hot, dry wind blows in from the desert areas of North Africa.
a desert island (= a tropical island that is far away and where nobody lives )
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He was shipwrecked on a desert island.
desert country
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Not much grows in this desert country.
desert island
deserted/empty (= with no one on it )
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We took a boat to a deserted beach.
empty/deserted (= with no people )
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As he walked home, the street was deserted.
gets his just deserts (= is punished in the way he deserves )
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I hope that he’s caught and gets his just deserts .
roam the countryside/desert/forests etc
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Wild sheep roam the hills.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
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Mysterious white beams stream down into the cold desert from saucer-shaped craft.
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Today Mars is a dry, cold , windy desert .
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Mechanical weathering is rapid in cold desert regions.
dry
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Plants cope with hot dry desert in many different ways.
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In dry polar deserts ahumic soils tend to remain ahumic indefinitely.
high
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Then a buttery glow leaking from horizon to horizon, flooding the mesas and outcrop rock of the high desert .
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Los Alamos was located in the high desert miles from Santa Fe and was surrounded by a barbed-wire fence.
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A Santa Fe resident for 10 years, Neikrug is happily ensconced in the high desert haven.
hot
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Laying and distributing the eggs in small batches is a special adaptation to these hot desert conditions.
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Then the hot desert wind died to a whisper and the reprieved showed their relief.
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Plants cope with hot dry desert in many different ways.
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And, soon, like water sprinkled on hot desert ground, my savings would vanish.
just
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Now the rich and the proud would get their just deserts .
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Even a low-cal concoction can make us feel that we're getting our just deserts .
open
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I had hoped for thirty on the paved road to bump up the average before the open desert at Adrar.
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Alone on the open desert , I have made up songs of wild, poignant rejoicing and transcendent melancholy.
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In open desert , I was on my own.
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This was open desert , and there was not a dune in sight and it was firm underfoot.
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The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert .
polar
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These are summarized in Tables 3.3 and 3.4. 3.3.1 Northern plant communities Polar desert and tundra.
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Many tundra species occur in polar desert and forest as well, but only in tundra do they dominate their communities.
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It takes one to the high, isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season.
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Similarly the term polar desert covers both the area and the vegetation characteristic of it.
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In dry polar deserts ahumic soils tend to remain ahumic indefinitely.
vast
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The expedition took place in the middle of a vast desert wilderness marked blank on the maps.
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In this vast Adrar desert , which borders Western Sahara, an inexorable drought governs nature and man.
■ NOUN
area
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Thus firewood is the most important source of energy in desert areas , where vegetation is sparse.
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The biggest boom is in the scenic desert areas , which are laced with washes.
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Unlike the United States, Britain had no large sparsely-populated desert areas in which to deploy strategic missiles.
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In the meantime the Devonian temperature increased and desert areas expanded.
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Landsat and Meteosat satellites regularly relay aerial, pictures of locust-infested desert areas .
floor
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Walker died instantly; his F-104 bursting into flames, the pieces falling away to the desert floor 25,000 feet below.
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Look at him down here on the desert floor running free as the breeze.
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He watched the altimeter unwind and felt his straps grip as the desert floor swung up to face him.
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So until it rains, the spadefoot sits immobile in its burrow, an unsuspected living presence beneath the parched desert floor .
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He was still counting off the height in hundreds as the Kittyhawk smashed through what would have been the desert floor .
island
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Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island .
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One person can live on a desert island without leader-ship.
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But for the moment, it seems he isn't the luxury most women want to take on a desert island with them.
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The witch Sycorax, who died shortly before Prospero arrived, had enchanted the desert island .
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If you were abandoned on a desert island , you would have total personal sovereignty to do exactly what you want.
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His bookishness became useful when he began to study magic on the desert island .
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But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island .
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The plan was to fly to the Cook islands , and spend at least three months alone on a desert island.
land
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The vast tracts of sterile desert land were broken only by irregular patches of short, dry grasses or rough scrubland.
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In a desert land , water decides life.
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He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands , thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.
plant
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See thousands of flowering desert plants .
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All the adaptations of the specialist desert plants and animals follow from these requirements.
sun
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He wondered how this man survived the desert sun .
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Today, the Playa is a table-top of sand that cracks beneath the desert sun and floods after monsoon rains.
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We used to be in the same practice, Peter and I. Now he's doing his stuff under the desert sun .
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Both seem to glow under the desert sun .
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At one end green plastic sheeting and hessian cloth provided shade from the desert sun .
■ VERB
live
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Animals and plants living in the desert therefore face severe problems.
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One person can live on a desert island without leader-ship.
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Some know how to live in such deserts , and meet their terrible demands.
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Recollect the feature films of the living desert , the vanishing prairie, the rams butting heads and salmon swimming upstream?
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They know because they have always lived in deserts , and their parents and grandparents before them.
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Anything less promising as a design for living in the desert is hard to imagine.
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I thought he lived in the desert .
lose
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Curtis was a very large man whose tiny facial features seemed lost in a desert of moist, granular skin.
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A man is lost in the desert without food.
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If we had lost hope, the desert dawn would restore our faith.
roam
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One sensed the aloneness, and would she be roaming the desert if there were a husband to worry about?
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Pride is one thing: a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert .
turn
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She lost her and in her terrible grief she withheld her gifts from the earth, which turned into a frozen desert .
wander
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For six years you wander the desert from level to pale level.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deserted wife/husband/child etc
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In practice, the treatment of widows and deserted wives varied considerably from region to region.
get/receive your (just) deserts
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Even a low-cal concoction can make us feel that we're getting our just deserts .
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From Llewelyn he would get his deserts , and be grateful for them.
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He was not a spiteful man, but he had enjoyed the sight of Spatz getting his deserts .
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Now the rich and the proud would get their just deserts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a US Army deserter
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was pointing off toward the desert .
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It was used in the Persian Gulf war to target smart bombs and guide tanks across the desert .
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So if you go for a walk in the desert in a few years time and a plane flies overhead, hide.
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The restaurant space also gives the sense of a genuine, if somewhat too comfortable, desert experience.
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The story happened in a sandy desert .
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These Sundays were the oases of human contact in the desert of my loneliness.
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Thirst is banished, and the desert becomes their home.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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It was almost deserted - looters were shot on sight and anyone who could flee had fled.
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The hamlet was almost deserted , except for two old women and some small children.
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As yet the streets were almost deserted , and so he couldn't resist driving by the tenement before making for the school.
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The place was almost deserted at that hour.
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The road, running for much of the time parallel to the river Wharfe, was almost deserted .
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Out in the street, it was almost deserted .
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The streets of Karachi are almost deserted .
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Apart from clusters of soldiers, the streets were almost deserted .
■ NOUN
army
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Their leader, Thorez, had deserted from the army and been stripped of his citizenship in 1939.
child
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Could a man who deserted his wife and child for another woman get off free without scars?
husband
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On January 24, 1952, the wife deserted the husband .
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The wife had then deserted the husband and was temporarily wrongfully away from home; but she might at any time return.
island
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They will be replaced by lesser black-backed gulls, the only Shetland breeding gull which entirely deserts the islands in winter.
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Some voyages offer whale-watching or visits to deserted Maine islands .
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A lord of the court provisioned the boat, and so they survived until they landed on a deserted island .
place
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When the dustmen come by and the first market stalls are being erected in the early morning the place is still deserted .
soldier
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Many young soldiers desert or go Awol after mistreatment and bullying by their superiors or colleagues.
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In some cases, the soldiers panicked and deserted even at rumors that rebels were coming.
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Several thousand soldiers desert every year, and military prosecutors, knowing the conditions, are reluctant to punish them.
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A pardon need not imply that a soldier did not desert , or show cowardice, or disobey orders.
street
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As yet the streets were almost deserted , and so he couldn't resist driving by the tenement before making for the school.
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The streets were deserted , empty in the sunshine.
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The street was rainswept and deserted .
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The street was all but deserted .
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The streets and bars were deserted , and for once the incessant noise and bustle had abated.
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Most buildings are tumbledown and all but the main streets are eerily deserted .
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Apart from clusters of soldiers, the streets were almost deserted .
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The street itself was deserted , the narrow plots of grass between the buildings an indescribable confusion of shadowy thorns and weeds.
wife
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Could a man who deserted his wife and child for another woman get off free without scars?
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Husbands, after all, deserted their wives every day, and most of them did not want to be found.
■ VERB
find
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It was aggravating in the extreme to discover him there, just when she had hoped to find the launch deserted .
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He threw every ounce of his energy into the run, reaching the bright street to find it deserted by traffic.
seem
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The house seemed silent and deserted .
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Canal Street, empty, or not yet filled, seemed to have been deserted .
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She could see part of Dewer Street through the half-open gate and it seemed to be deserted .
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The house seemed deserted , except for the two maids who were tidying up the living room in silence as we passed.
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At first glance, the place seemed deserted .
turn
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Once the ground has lost its protective cover of vegetation it quickly turns to desert .
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The aftermath death, flood, famine Cleared tropical forest soon turns to desert .
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In west Texas the drought has brought fears that the land will turn to desert .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Goldilocks finds a house in the woods that seems to have been deserted by its owners.
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He obtained the grenades from a friend who had deserted from the army.
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His father had deserted the family when Graham was three years old.
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Mrs Hasan was deserted by her husband and had to support four children on her own.
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Paul feels that his father deserted him after the divorce.
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The three men had tried to desert , but were brought back to camp and shot.
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U.S. officials say 1000 enemy soldiers have deserted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hibs' contribution was substantial until their stamina deserted them.
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His own men deserted him, poisoned his food, and eventually shot him in the head.
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I deserted the play, as did the other actors on stage, and leapt into the audience.
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Several thousand soldiers desert every year, and military prosecutors, knowing the conditions, are reluctant to punish them.
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The present site was apparently first recorded about 1939 and Aldershaw was deserted in 1947.