I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
giant killer
giant panda
make great/major/giant etc strides
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The government has made great strides in reducing poverty.
red giant
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
clam
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The exact location is being kept secret to avoid poaching, which almost drove the giant clam to extinction 20 years ago.
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I find three more specimens of the giant clam , and the following day, two.
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In particular, both corals and giant clams harbour unicellular algae which live within their body cells.
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There is no recorded example of a giant clam causing a human death.
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And champion of them all, whether on land or in the sea, is almost certainly the giant clam .
corporation
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A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation .
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In industry after industry, giant corporations were seeking national markets -- and often, monopolies.
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These giant corporations may simply opt for law evasion.
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But the influential position of giant corporations varies significantly from industry to industry.
eel
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He began to doubt the giant eel would bite.
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He grabbed hold of the net and prepared himself for when the giant eel came thrashing into sight.
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I came to the school some time ago to investigate the giant eel and got lost.
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Also, the threat of the giant eel was getting worse and worse.
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You can't escape by sea because of the giant eel .
leap
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One giant leap for Fleet Street's finest.
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We also might add that it took a giant leap of thought.
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Organisations may take giant leaps and consequently deal with the unfamiliar.
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This does not include the characters themselves, but that wouldn't now be such a giant leap to take.
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Even one small step on the path of your plan can be a giant leap !
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But it's a giant leap for trout, tench, roach, loach, pike, perch and bream.
panda
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They shot a giant panda asleep under a tree.
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It was cooked by a woman, or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda .
planet
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The giant planets will remain a puzzle for a long time.
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The giant planets , with such feeble solar heating, are also very cold.
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The high abundances of hydrogen and helium are features of the giant planets also.
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Typically, the giant planets contain about forty-five parts per million of helium-3 in their atmospheres.
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The giant planets are, in fact, warm inside.
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Discovery would enter a parking orbit around Saturn, be-coming a new moon of the giant planet .
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But that betrays a terribly parochial notion of what giant planets are like.
screen
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A thousand copies of the New York Times run past me on a giant screen .
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So you're talking about setting up giant screens and elaborate video and sound systems.
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Slick political ads play on a giant screen .
slalom
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There will be four disciplines: Downhill, super G, giant slalom and slalom.
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Janir had slalom , giant slalom and downhill skis, all top-of-the-line models replaced every year or two.
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But until she improves her ability in slalom and giant slalom, she lacks the versatility to take the big prize.
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After placing third in the giant slalom , she blew the slalom altogether by missing a gate on her first run.
step
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If she said yes, then it would be like taking a giant step backwards.
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I often lay on the grassy mound that created a giant step between our house and the one next to us.
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This took the issue a giant step forward.
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I took two giant steps to the left and slipped into the bathroom.
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It was clearly time for one giant step for a kind man.
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Cataloguing the birthplaces of proteins will be a giant step towards solving the mysteries of human biology.
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It is, morally, a giant step to take.
stride
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I was off-balance, falling forward, lurching with giant strides , certain that the next step would end in a nosedive.
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Pilot groups working since the middle of last year have already made giant strides in factory efficiency.
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Actually the best bit was the giant stride in, which was about fifteen feet high.
tortoise
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Although humans may have the longest lifespan of any mammal, giant tortoises have the longest recorded lives among vertebrates.
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Transported to this bleak planet only to be confronted by a marauding gang of giant tortoises .
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Much easier to photograph were the giant tortoises which were lumbering around like tanks in the undergrowth.
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The giant tortoises that feed on them are damaged in their turn.
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Land birds and reptiles, like giant tortoises and land iguanas, are having a field day.
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Whalers began the damage by killing at least 100,000 giant tortoises for meat and oil.
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V Moly A giant tortoise struggles in and out of his awkward clothes.
tree
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Blue grey droplets of water splash down like giant trees .
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Yet another child initiated a campaign to save a giant tree from being cut down.
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I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land, wielding an axe against some giant tree .
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Even the first set of two leaves that tiny seedlings sprout are brilliantly colored, just like those of giant trees .
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He looked up, but even now he couldn't see the top of the giant tree .
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They are the few giant trees in the forest-but the weeds, not the majestic cedars, choke us.
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Tallis circled the giant tree twice.
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Long strings of paper looped from limb to limb in the giant trees over there.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Giant cabbages grew in the garden.
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...and then this giant green monster appeared from the cave.
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a giant TV screen
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Be careful. The forest is full of giant snakes and spiders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even one small step on the path of your plan can be a giant leap!
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Geologically, this area is an alluvial fan of a giant rock slide of granitic gneisses.
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If he was to be the father of a nation, he wanted giant sons.
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It was as if they had landed on an alien planet, his fear that of awakening the denizens, giant and menacing.
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It would be like knitting in the middle of a giant car park.
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The giant bivalves jammed the cracks between the black tufts of lava that covered the ocean floor.
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The giant daughter of the house then rushed to comfort Thor.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
corporate
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Even corporate giants are felled when their industries collapse under them.
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In addition, these 800 corporate giants employ approximately one-fourth of the entire labor force.
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Leave the struggling independent label for the corporate giant .
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Increasingly, even corporate giants are turning to telecommuting as a way to reduce overhead.
gentle
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He was big and burly, and isn't it known that all big and burly men are ... gentle giants .
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Those who have worked with the animals are filled with nostalgia for the gentle giants .
industrial
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For example, the industrial giants who dominate the chemical industry have large capital investments in petrochemicals.
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Prohibition killed all but a handful of regional breweries and the well-known industrial giants .
pharmaceutical
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Buckhaven's skills have also been enlisted by another pharmaceutical giant for an anti-asthma drug.
red
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It is only 93 light-years away, closer than most of the red giants .
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The red giants also may be useful in calibrating cosmic distances and estimating the age of the universe.
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These red giants were probably close neighbours of the infant sun and the ejected matter fell into the solar nebula.
■ NOUN
aerospace
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Martin Marietta has since merged with a second aerospace giant to form Lockheed Martin.
car
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Fellow car giant Nissan is co-operating with Ford, and will also use luxury cars to introduce the services.
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The unions at Ford claimed the car giant is to shed 3,000 jobs at its main assembly plants.
electronics
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The electronics giant added 1 / 4 to 50 1 / 8 as 9. 2 million shares changed hands.
industry
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And he made Hewlett-Packard both an industry giant and renowned for its team-oriented principles.
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But analysts were skeptical of the shifting calendar explanation, especially with the standout performance of some industry giants .
media
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Nationalist politics often favor local companies over outside media giants , skewing competition for new licenses.
software
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Earnings for chip manufacturers like Intel and software giants like Microsoft have long depended on an unrelenting and accelerating cycle of upgrades.
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There was even room for high-profile newcomers at the toy fair, such as software giant Microsoft.
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Netscape faces a long, drawn-out battle with software giant Microsoft, but Barksdale says he is up to the task.
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The software giant only recently turned its attention to the Internet.
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Oracle, the Redwood City software giant , jumped 11 / 4 to 371 / 2.
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Win 95 has been a bestseller since the software giant rolled it out almost two years ago.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant may own the market for operating systems and business software for personal computers.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant also offered free Internet features to anyone who uses it.
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based
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The Midland, Mich.-#based chemical giant expects to spend $ 1 billion to achieve these goals, he said.
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The Redmond, Wash.-#based software giant may own the market for operating systems and business software for personal computers.
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The Redmond, Wash.-\#based software giant also offered free Internet features to anyone who uses it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clapton is one of the giants of the music industry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is clear that the publicly held Wall Street giants are doing very well.
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He found her, with the giants, and urged her to return with him to the depths.
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I have been amazed at much of the cautiousness displayed in much of the current analysis of the dying giant .
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Or, as the old tag had it, pygmies standing on the shoulders of giants.
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Pickleson, fairground giant with whom Doctor Marigold becomes friendly and who draws his attention to the deaf-mute whom Sophy eventually marries.
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The furrows look like a herd of giants have been plowing hither and yon through the snow.