noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the very nature/essence of sth
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As a travel writer, the very nature of his job meant that he travelled a lot.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
human
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And it's the bodily imperfections and decay which lead us to desire a permanence of the human essence .
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Even greater difficulties follow from the way in which Marx identifies production with human essence .
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Laing is still preoccupied with the authentic self, the repressed human essence .
real
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Our nominal essences of modes, however, are ideas of their real essences.
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The real essences of modes are not corpuscular, of course.
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Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas, and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences .
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But geometrical figures are not the only modes, and so are not the only things whose real essences we can know.
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That is surely the real essence of beauty, nomatterwhat the age.
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They result from their real essences , the arrangement of corpuscles which make them up.
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The real essence of integration, however, is not multilateralism, but the creation of a supranational economy.
very
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Atheism for Marxism is not an optional extra or a mere facet but the very essence of it.
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These distortions are the very essence of prejudice, and it is hardly surprising that conflict with Peter had arisen.
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Wars were the very essence of the Roman organization.
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In Richard, she had the very essence of his father.
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The second assumption is the very essence of self development.
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It is, indeed, politically more difficult for it threatens the very essence of capitalism.
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Yet movement is the very essence of being human and of the human condition which policing sets out to nullify.
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Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge.
■ NOUN
vanilla
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Put a few drops of natural vanilla essence into a pan of water and place in a low oven.
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Gradually whisk in beaten egg and vanilla essence .
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Mix the lemon juice and vanilla essence with the custard.
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Mix cream cheese, icing sugar, vanilla essence and pistachio nuts.
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She marshalled the troops: flour, sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla essence .
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Take off heat, stir in vanilla essence .
■ VERB
capture
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Nevertheless, it captures the essence of the game very well.
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A few simple brushstrokes have captured the essence of her inextinguishable hope for a better future.
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It is difficult to capture the essence of why a trip is enjoyable.
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We want to capture the essence of his great trio, but with our own arrangements and in our own way.
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To the environmentally concerned, however, the origin and extraction method for capturing an essence may be of vital importance.
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They did capture the essence of what we were looking for: the emotional aspect of growing up with the virus.
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Anyone acquainted with ancient ikons will recognise how acutely she has captured their essence .
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It was mind-boggling how quickly he captured the essence of our business and started making improvements.
contain
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A magic-saturated shaman mushroom is very potent indeed, containing the essence of the shaman's magical power.
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The capacity to build a relationship contains the essence of any social work interaction.
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This article contains the essence of both trips.
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Why, it might contain the essence of life itself.
represent
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In this sense the policy represents the essence of consumerism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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essence of garlic
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Equality is the essence of democracy.
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His speech was, in essence , a plea for understanding and conciliation.
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Sharing is the essence of friendship.
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The essence of his argument is that human character is formed by society.
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The essence of his teachings can be summed up in the phrase "Know yourself."
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The movie brilliantly captures the essence of Calcutta's street life.
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This is the essence of the problem, as I see it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I understand why the Government have maintained an exemption for small businesses, for which survival is of the essence .
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In essence , internal relations previously based on hierarchies and bureaucratic authority are being gradually transformed into actual or surrogate market transactions.
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It was mind-boggling how quickly he captured the essence of our business and started making improvements.
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That in essence is what started Pons and Fleischmann on their quest for test-tube fusion.
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The defence case, which opened last week, will in essence plead incompetence.