noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lie detector test
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He was asked to take a lie detector test .
lie detector
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He was asked to take a lie detector test .
metal detector
smoke detector
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sensitive
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Invisible to the eye, these rays can be picked up by sensitive custom-built detectors .
■ NOUN
letter
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This is why the letter detectors are referred to as abstract: they do not provide information about specific visual form.
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This letter detector remains active for some brief period of time, until the pattern mask is presented.
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These experiments provide strong evidence for the existence of a system of abstract letter detectors .
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Presumably, the letter detector level is used equally when non-words or words are presented.
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The letter detectors in turn excite detectors for consistent words.
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At the next stage - abstract letter detection - all twenty-six letters of the alphabet are represented by individual letter detectors .
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Every feature detector in the feature-detection stage is linked to every letter detector in the letter-detector stage.
lie
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Too little; far, far, far too much, straight to a lie detector .
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Wagenbach rejected a bid by Elliott to introduce as evidence an offer made to Mrs Moon to take a lie detector test.
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Why, he asked, did the only lie detector test given indicate deception?
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Kids have a built-in lie detector .
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Prosecutors have warned that broader use of lie detectors will only give criminals another way to beat the system.
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For his own information, Boesen asked Hicks to take a lie detector test.
metal
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Once the search area has been widened however, enthusiasm flooded back with a loud response from one of the metal detectors .
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Perhaps most important, they are not easily spotted by metal detectors or traditional X-ray machines.
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But I fancy I can still hear the sounds of the metal detector and a globe spinning!
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Could he please try out his metal detector in her yard?
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There are security checks, body searches, a metal detector .
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Security was tight; every guest was searched and walked through a metal detector upon arrival.
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The police had to hand back their metal detectors etc, in the court.
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Each morning, security guards search students with hand-held metal detectors .
radar
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It is a radar detector which sets off an alarm if a ship, with radar working, is in the vicinity.
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Traffic officers claim the new gun can't be picked up by speeding motorists who use radar detectors to avoid being caught.
smoke
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By the time it sets off the smoke detector , the corridor is blocked.
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Keep a torch handy or buy smoke detectors with lights.
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Three hundred firemen and 400 policemen raced to the Hofburg after a smoke detector set off the alarm soon after midnight.
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The earlier response of smoke detectors in detecting fumes and smoke in the smouldering stages of fire will be of some benefit.
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Luckily we have a smoke detector on the ceiling in each room.
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Those who have recommended a change in the law to require the installation of smoke detectors have now got their wish.
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Ironically the couple had been discussing putting smoke detectors in all the rooms just the day before the fire happened.
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The computer system operates alarms, doors and smoke detectors and the fault was discovered on Saturday morning.
test
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And when irregularities arise, lie-detector tests are ordered.
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Wagenbach rejected a bid by Elliott to introduce as evidence an offer made to Mrs Moon to take a lie detector test .
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Why, he asked, did the only lie detector test given indicate deception?
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For his own information, Boesen asked Hicks to take a lie detector test .
user
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If he is that different from the present denizens, perhaps his influence may extend to more tolerance toward detector users ?
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At the start of the event, one whole side was full of detector users ready for the off!
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There are now 30,000 metal detector users in Britain alone.
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There were several shouts from other detector users , who must have found something similar.
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If you meet another detector user , introduce yourself.
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Although several hundred detector users were present, they were quickly lost in the massive fields.
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Although other factors are involved, the depreciation in value is principally due to the number of these coins found by detector users .
word
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In contrast, when the target is a word , both letter and word detectors will be activated.
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All the twenty-six letters of the alphabet have links to all the words at the word detector level.
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As soon as any information from a spoken stimulus reaches the word detectors , however, a process of candidate elimination begins.
■ VERB
use
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Others use optical detectors , which seem to respond more quickly to smoke from smouldering fires such as those involving upholstered furniture.
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Four guys were caught using detectors on a farmer's field at night.
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A thermal imager uses detectors of cadmium mercury telluride, which detect infrared radiation when they are cooled to very low temperatures.
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Traffic officers claim the new gun can't be picked up by speeding motorists who use radar detectors to avoid being caught.
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And the beam can't be spotted by drivers who use radar trap detectors .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any reader wanting the right detector to suit his pocket and plenty of sound advice is welcome to give me a ring.
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Could he please try out his metal detector in her yard?
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It has heat and air and detectors for propane, smoke and carbon monoxide.
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Now I am in heaven - no, not dead just surrounded by metal detectors!
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The detector has active anti-condensation protection to assure trouble free operation in cold-rooms.
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The amount of labeled thyroxine displaced can be counted in a detector and the concentration of thyroxine calculated.
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The electronics inside the pistol consist of a light detector or photo-diode and a small amplifier and buffer.