adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a detached garage (= not joined to a house )
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The house benefits from a large detached garage.
detached especially BrE (= not joined to another house )
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It is a modern detached property with five bedrooms.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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They have a high wall around them, more profound than most people, more detached and scientific.
■ NOUN
house
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Neighbours in other flats at the three-storey detached house raised the alarm at 3am.
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The Association has recently purchased a large, detached house in a residential area of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
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Our new house is a two bedroom semi detached house.
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Attractive new semis, terraced and detached houses are replacing the old concrete eyesores.
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It was a small community, very snooty, of large detached houses set in lawns and trees.
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From the street it looked like an ordinary, large, detached house .
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A well proportioned bay fronted semi detached house situated in the heart of this popular development.
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Bellway Homes has applied for permission to build 28 detached houses on 7.6 acres at Guisborough Road.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Wheeler sings in a detached , passionless way.
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Witnessing all the pain and suffering, it is sometimes difficult for relief workers to remain detached .
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You'll never be a good lawyer until you learn to be more detached .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From their judicious distance they watched in silence, with detached interest.
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He felt detached , almost remote.
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If the caption does become detached the finder can see at a glance what it is.
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Much of the critical antipathy towards the Reeve derives from the ingestion of such prejudice as opposed to detached examination of it.
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They sat there drinking coffee and looking at the Glovers with detached interest.
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We are able to remain detached observers of life.
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We lived in a detached three-bedroom house on the edge of the town.