I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an American/English etc expression
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She remembered the American expression her mother had always used: 'Life’s a breeze'.
an English/a full breakfast (= a big breakfast with bacon, egg, toast etc - used especially in hotels )
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A lot of people like to have an English breakfast on holiday.
an English/American/French etc equivalent
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Savings and loan associations are the American equivalent of Britain’s building societies.
an English/French etc translation
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He wrote the first English translation of Homer’s 'Iliad'.
an English/history/politics etc essay
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He got a good grade for his English essay.
English breakfast
English horn
English muffin
English/French/Greek etc poetry
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He was a student of English poetry.
English/German etc law
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This is not an offence under English law.
King's English
language/English/science etc teaching
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She has considerable experience in language teaching.
Old English sheepdog
Queen's English
teach (sb) English/mathematics/history etc
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He taught geography at the local secondary school.
the English/Japanese/Spanish etc language
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She had some knowledge of the Spanish language.
World English
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
English/American/German etc letters
Middle English/French etc
Old English/Old Icelandic etc
broken English/French etc
in plain English/language
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A weekly publication that analyzes some 1, 700 different stocks, Value Line is written in plain language.
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Our subsequent telephone conversation was a study in plain language, but McFarlane held his ground and made no apologies.
pidgin English/French etc
render sth into English/Russian/Chinese etc
speak the Queen's English
spoken English/language etc
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At 2 years of age, children begin to master spoken language, a system of arbitrary signs.
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For this reason, spoken language interpreters are specifically trained to reject the effects of their utterance of the target language.
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In normal spoken language there are often clear pragmatic constraints on the choice of particular syntactic forms.
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In order of their emergence, they are deferred imitation, symbolic play, drawing, mental imagery, and spoken language.
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Neologisms come and go very quickly in spoken language but tend to be less frequent in writing.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have found that testosterone aids spatial thinking, but interferes with performance of spoken language.
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The purpose was to show that he too used spoken language and that it and Tarvarian were mutually incomprehensible.
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The same arguments apply to children's spoken language.
the French/Italian/English Riviera
the King's English
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an English teacher
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What grade did you get in English ?
II. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
English/American/German etc letters
pidgin English/French etc
render sth into English/Russian/Chinese etc
speak the Queen's English
the French/Italian/English Riviera
the King's English