adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut and dried
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I don’t think the plan is as cut and dried as people think.
dried fish (= preserved by having the water removed )
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Occasionally, the guards gave us some vegetables and dried fish.
dried flowers
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She had brightened up the room with a vase of dried flowers.
dried fruit
dried milk
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
apricot
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To get good dried apricots it is nowadays necessary to shop for them in wholefood and health food stores.
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A good addition to dried apricot fool is a spoonful or two of freshly ground almonds.
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Commercially dried apricots are exposed to sulphur dioxide to preserve their colour, before they are dried in hot air.
blood
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The hepatitis B virus may be stable in dried blood and blood products at room temperature for up to seven days.
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The plaster walls were damp and cracked, the floor unswept, its stones stained with dried blood and excrement.
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What with that and the dried blood , his wife refuses to eat them, so berries for eating are grown separately.
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He looked a mess, his face covered in bruises and dried blood .
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The hair looked as though it were smeared with dried blood .
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From his mouth crawled a long, dead centipede of dried blood .
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As the gaunt farmer Spoke, Sparkes noticed dried blood on his shirt front where it met his breeches.
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It's dried blood that's difficult.
fish
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Sometimes only dried fish and dates and a little rice.
flower
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We sell dried flowers and herbs by the bunch and a large range of baskets.
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In the centre of the room was a large wooden table holding a stoneware jar of dried flowers .
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Cloves are dried flower buds and are usually sold whole.
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Here at the Moredon Community Gardening Centre, there are regular classes on anything from hanging baskets to dried flower arranging.
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For a more permanent display use dried flowers .
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Not a table with dried flowers .
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The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers .
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When the magazine folded she specialised in dried flowers which had the virtue of not being able to shriek back.
food
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Thus when the dried food is gone, a favourite delicacy is given for a job well done.
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Feed a diet of insects, worms, plant matter, flake food and freeze dried food.
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Start with a single piece of dried food as a first course and offer nothing more until it is consumed.
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There's some kind of dried food stuck on the volume control.
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Where such foods are not available, dried foods can be used.
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Below right: Most modern dried foods will offer the right formulation for your fish - but choose carefully.
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After cooking, wash in warm, soapy water; soak in suds for longer periods to remove dried food particles.
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They were thick with dried food and grime.
fruit
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As the name suggests, the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit .
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Stir in flour and coconut and mix in dried fruit and chopped cherries.
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Beat in the mixed dried fruit and milk and turn into the prepared can.
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It was a strange supper - tomatoes, potato chips, dried fruit and cake.
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Combine the dried fruits and mix with the grated orange and lemon rind.
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This way rather a lot of calories can be consumed; the chart gives the number of calories per ounce of dried fruit .
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Heather from flours and dried fruits was standing in the gap between two aisles.
grass
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He wore a cap of rabbit-fur decorated with a handful of dried grasses stuck in the seam.
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My face was on dead leaves and dried grass and pieces of twig.
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She stood near a great vase of dried grasses and leaves and her dress was something flowery.
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The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank.
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I have often put out some dried grass or leaves and had badgers make use of my offerings the very same evening.
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Chop some dried grass into small pieces and put it in a saucepan with water.
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A tangled ball of dried grass raced back towards Aulef like a whippet bound for home.
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A sudden breeze rustled the dried grasses and surrounding scrub.
herb
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The smell of dried herbs rose up from the bedclothes.
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From these smoke-blackened beams Agnes Poley had hung her sides of bacon, her bundles of dried herbs .
milk
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Hoardings for Nespray - the Nestlé dried milk - are everywhere.
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For breakfast the family eats a thin maize porridge made from dried milk , prepared over an open fire.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dried herbs are convenient but I think fresh ones have more flavour.
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Add four tablespoons of dried milk to a pint of cold water, and stir until dissolved.
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My friend Minu loves dried flowers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For a more permanent display use dried flowers.
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He looked a mess, his face covered in bruises and dried blood.
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Here at the Moredon Community Gardening Centre, there are regular classes on anything from hanging baskets to dried flower arranging.
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Stir in flour and coconut and mix in dried fruit and chopped cherries.
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The hepatitis B virus may be stable in dried blood and blood products at room temperature for up to seven days.
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The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers.
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There it is added to the fuel in the kilns where the malted barley is dried .
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There were dried sticks and brown leaves everywhere.