noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fighter plane (= a small fast military plane )
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fighter planes from the Second World War
a resistance fighter
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Resistance fighters had captured a German officer.
freedom fighter
jet fighter/aircraft/airliner
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a squadron of F-6 jet fighter aircraft
stealth bomber/aircraft/fighter etc (= a plane made using this system )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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He was a good fighter and he was not afraid of other men.
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Ya was a good fighter , very tough.
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It was only too likely that they would encounter dangers beyond the warren and that they would stand in need of some good fighters .
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Norris was clearly the better fighter .
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He was a good fighter and a brave man, though not, like Bedwyr, a natural leader.
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Ya know, youse can be a good fighter .
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Punch: Very fast but not so good for weaker fighters .
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In his future. Good fighters are like that, and Hopkins is among the best.
great
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Most of today's great tournament fighters on the world circuits limit themselves to a few techniques that work best for them.
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But I fought a great fighter tonight.
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An excess of nutrition has produced as many great fighters as hunger or poverty ever did.
guerrilla
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The victims are likely to become willing guerrilla fighters or refugees.
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Against the blows directed against them by reactionaries of all stripes, the Fourth International expresses its solidarity with the guerrilla fighters .
jet
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The truck passes, and like jet fighters at an air show, we somehow manage to avoid contact.
new
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No new fighters ever seemed to come now, no fresh and eager faces appeared in the Takali mess.
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The high mission capable rates in the Gulf were achieved with old as well as new generation fighters .
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The new fighter will move around the area looking for openings in his opponent's defence.
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And Lockheed Martin now wants clearance to export the new F-22 stealth fighter .
soviet
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The original thirty-six aircraft had been increased or replaced by about thirty-six Soviet fighter aircraft.
young
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The younger fighter seemed to have recovered from the knockdown.
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Marson notes that he has all the necessary equipment, along with a million-dollar umbrella insurance policy to cover the young fighters .
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Most of the younger resistance fighters lived with other families who treated them like their sons.
■ NOUN
aircraft
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The F22 would clearly outperform any existing fighter aircraft .
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The controls and instrumentation of a modern fighter aircraft , for example, are bafflingly complex.
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No fighter aircraft could do it.
bomber
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From the latest fighter bomber , to something a little older.
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Knowing that it would call up the fighter bombers , the convoy scattered into whatever cover could be found.
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The planes are returning to the United States, although F-One-Eleven fighter bombers are staying on.
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At one point Dostam used fighter bombers to attack the presidential palace and defence ministry.
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Pentagon officials acknowledge using two Stealth fighter bombers to drop 2,000 pound bombs.
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F-one-eleven fighter bombers have been flying from the base for more than twenty years.
enemy
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I instructed Peter to keep a sharp lookout for enemy fighters and then to follow me.
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For this expenditure, intelligence estimated that 231 enemy fighters were killed.
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Antiaircraft fire had become greatly intensified, but in my continued observations I saw no enemy fighter planes.
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As many as 60 enemy fighters flew abreast of the Group, then turned and attacked in formation, using saturation tactics.
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No enemy fighters were in the air, nor were there any gun flashes from the ground.
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Only a few, isolated bursts of flak were seen and no enemy fighters were encountered.
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About four enemy fighters which took off were promptly shot down.
fire
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Two fire fighters were killed ten days ago in the fire which gutted most of the factory.
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Ten classrooms were gutted in the arson attack, and three fire fighters were treated for smoke inhalation.
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Putting Labour in charge of reducing unemployment would be like sending a fire fighter to tackle a blaze with his hoses full of petrol.
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Diesel spill: Stockton fire fighters swilled away a quantity of diesel after a small spillage in Portrack Lane, yesterday morning.
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Burning car: Fire fighters were called to a car on fire at Hillside Avenue, Middlesbrough.
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Could the mayor of Vienna please have some fire fighters kept on alert around the parliament building, just in case?
freedom
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This may be what some of those egging the freedom fighters on want to happen.
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And Mel Gibson does pass muster as a filthy freedom fighter with a talent for decapitation.
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A skills shortage exists and the reintegration of former freedom fighters has proved difficult, with many incidents of undisciplined conduct.
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But quite the opposite happened, as the freedom fighters turned their confinement to good use.
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The hardest worked were the female freedom fighters .
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The army and police are no match for well-armed and determined freedom fighters .
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Police oppression of the freedom fighters brought my protest against authority almost to the point of obsession.
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You've also got various religious freedom fighters .
night
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Fear of a bad take-off, of night fighters , of flak and searchlights.
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Plane caught fire as a result of night fighter attacks.
pilot
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The fighter pilot taking a little light relief.
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Oscar was hurled through the windscreen like a fighter pilot jerking forward at G-speed.
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He was an outstanding fighter pilot who proved his mettle in a variety of tough assignments, including two wars.
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During launch the crew use pressure suits very similar those worn by fighter pilots .
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Don Shepperd told the news conference, referring to the fighter pilots involved in the two encounters.
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They were all fighter pilots and they got hit, you see.
plane
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Until recently F-Shed was where Jaguar fighter planes were serviced.
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That incident occurred about 10 to 15 miles offshore, as the four fighter planes were returning from a training mission.
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It was a photograph of a fighter plane with the pilot standing beside it.
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The Navy is spending $ 83 billion on its F-18 E / F fighter plane program.
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Military sources say 12 of the Internet-ready devices would be able to control missiles or unmanned fighter planes .
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There are no gracefully lethal curves on this fighter plane .
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Antiaircraft fire had become greatly intensified, but in my continued observations I saw no enemy fighter planes .
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The plan seems to be to use airlift escorted by fighter planes .
resistance
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Soldiers, spies, resistance fighters , protesters.
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Most of the younger resistance fighters lived with other families who treated them like their sons.
squadron
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Peacock wondered if all fighter squadrons were like this.
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Been given a bomber squadron and one or two fighter squadrons and us.
stealth
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Pentagon officials acknowledge using two Stealth fighter bombers to drop 2,000 pound bombs.
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And Lockheed Martin now wants clearance to export the new F-22 stealth fighter .
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The Air Force intends the F-22 stealth fighter to be the grimmest perdition to darken the skies since mythological times.
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A new, all-but-invisible stealth fighter was no exception.
street
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But he was a street fighter who could also hold the attention of a pavement crowd by his eloquence.
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He was chunky and had a baby face and came to Our Lady of Mercy as a seasoned street fighter .
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I am not a street fighter , I don't need to hate him to beat him.
■ VERB
fly
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This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter .
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Aspiring pilots get to fly seven Imperial fighters , each with its own characteristics.
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Simply flying jet fighters in those early days involved high risk.
kill
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All were found dead, stabbed in the stomach, presumably killed by rival fighters from the school down the road.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a crime fighter
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Dad was a fighter , but he couldn't beat cancer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And legendary names like the Tiger Moth trainer and Mosquito and Vampire fighters were also made there.
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Halflings are excellent bowmen and stubborn fighters despite their rather diminutive size.