noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an impossible feat (= something that is impossible to do )
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She achieved the seemingly impossible feat of breaking the world record.
remarkable feat/achievement/accomplishment
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It’s a remarkable achievement for the company.
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■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
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He achieved the very considerable feat of isolating a material, demonstrating its purity and getting an analysis of the elements present.
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At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years.
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It is a considerable feat to have condensed 150 years of complex history into some hundred readable pages.
difficult
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But, to my mind, Colin Watson brings off almost every time the difficult feat he attempts.
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He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking.
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That way, says Denis, you can achieve the sometimes difficult feat of appearing interested in what is being said.
extraordinary
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An extraordinary feat of biological engineering.
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That was an extraordinary feat of bravery.
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Not one hospital, school or daycare centre closed-a formidable testament to an extraordinary feat of economic juggling.
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Athletes, it seems, also appropriate this knowing to accomplish extraordinary feats .
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The contest is an extraordinary feat of wrestling.
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The sports literature suggests that a few individuals who are able to perform extraordinary feats view reality in this way.
great
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Crawford was still in camp during the 1918 season, and was able to perform great feats for Wellington.
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One more great feat of arms he did before his fighting ended for ever.
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It represents one of man's great architectural feats and was technically a major step forward.
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None the less, great feats of mental gymnastics were per-formed to make them into atmospheric phenomena.
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Dry warm days and long light evenings drive on the smallholder to even greater feats of energy and determination.
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He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter.
impossible
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He considered it an impossible feat , tantamount to asking for eighteen miracles in a row.
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There were more impossible feats waiting to be performed at Niagara than at any other place on the continent.
incredible
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Stale soul purifier Souls, like bodies and minds, are capable of incredible feats of endurance.
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It was an incredible feat of engineering, dug by hand.
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It would be an incredible feat for a side built from unsung players.
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He attempted to envisage and explain the incredible feat of navigation undertaken by Captain Bligh after the Mutiny.
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It's an exciting life by any standards and this description of Watson's incredible feats certainly makes exciting reading.
major
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Simply staying on a 500 is a major feat .
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The following day is filled with fatigue and irritability, and just making it through the workday is a major feat .
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Just getting away from the madding crowd proves to be a major feat on the most crowded island on Earth.
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The court sits next to the family garden, where a rock commemorates a major Ferry athletic feat .
mean
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On Tuesday Invergordon Distillers reported a marginal improvement in underlying profits, no mean feat given the difficulties facing the whisky sector.
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Given that there are some 20,000 such fastenings in a boat of this size, this is no mean feat .
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This is no mean feat as the statute has 108 sections divided into 12 separate parts, together with 15 schedules.
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Was only beaten once by Tilson and given the game Tillo was having that is no mean feat .
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The discovery of an effect with such a long latent period was no mean feat of epidemiology.
remarkable
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Just such a remarkable feat happened two years running in 1928 and 1929, with Tipperary Tim and Gregalach respectively.
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How do babies accomplish such a remarkable feat ?
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The mounting and supply of the expedition was a remarkable feat .
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But it is a remarkable feat of alchemy indeed.
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This remarkable feat of arms is largely unrecognised.
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For a leading Democrat to chastise his own party at its own nominating convention was a remarkable political feat .
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I had achieved the remarkable feat of uniting the two factions at the party in mockery of me.
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I was capable of holding watch for most of a day without the slightest trembling or consciousness of my remarkable feat .
small
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No small feat and something quite alien to ourselves, difficult to imagine.
■ VERB
accomplish
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Now you reset the glasses and invite others to accomplish your feat .
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How do babies accomplish such a remarkable feat ?
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Ian Wilmut, of the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, has already accomplished this feat in his second cloned sheep.
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The lucky boy accomplished the feat , and caught the evil, greedy king in a curse at the same time.
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How can they accomplish this feat ?
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He collected the $ 25, 000 prize Raymond Orteig had put up for anyone who could accomplish the astounding feat .
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Athletes, it seems, also appropriate this knowing to accomplish extraordinary feats .
achieve
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He achieved the very considerable feat of isolating a material, demonstrating its purity and getting an analysis of the elements present.
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He could become the first Buck to achieve the statistical feat for the season since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did it in 1974-75.
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Givaudon achieved his feat simply by soaking the growing shoots of plants in colchicine.
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Powell achieved a similar feat , but then resigned.
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That way, says Denis, you can achieve the sometimes difficult feat of appearing interested in what is being said.
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At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years.
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I had achieved the remarkable feat of uniting the two factions at the party in mockery of me.
perform
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Crawford was still in camp during the 1918 season, and was able to perform great feats for Wellington.
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The traders performed astonishing feats of gluttony never before seen at Salomon.
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After all, here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats .
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The sports literature suggests that a few individuals who are able to perform extraordinary feats view reality in this way.
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In 1882 and in 1883 he performed the feat of taking the half-mile, one-mile, four-mile, and ten-mile championships.
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Latterly Dad had sobered much when he was no longer able to perform his old feats of strength and daring.
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How they perform such amazing navigational feats is unknown.
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And it may perform this stupendous reproductive feat annually for thirty or forty years.
repeat
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Thornaby skipper Mike Priestley will be hoping he can repeat that feat for him a few times this season.
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The Kings have won back-to-back games only four times this season and had gone 20 games without repeating the feat .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
no mean feat/achievement/task etc
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But that was no mean achievement.
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For an immigrant boy this marital alliance was no mean achievement.
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Given that there are some 20,000 such fastenings in a boat of this size, this is no mean feat.
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In particular the notion that nurse training is for the young and for women only must be dispelled; no mean task.
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In this case it was no mean task.
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On Tuesday Invergordon Distillers reported a marginal improvement in underlying profits, no mean feat given the difficulties facing the whisky sector.
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This is no mean feat as the statute has 108 sections divided into 12 separate parts, together with 15 schedules.
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This is no mean task, especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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acrobatic circus feats
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He led his team to victory for the tenth time, a feat no captain had achieved before.
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The circus acrobats perform amazing feats on the trapeze.
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Using the code requires incredible feats of memory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking.
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In the great outdoors, the merit of any feats become meaningless.
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Powell achieved a similar feat , but then resigned.
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The lucky boy accomplished the feat , and caught the evil, greedy king in a curse at the same time.