noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beach hut (= a small building on the beach for storing things such as swimming or sports equipment )
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a row of brightly painted beach huts
Quonset hut
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
little
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He walked down the path to the little hut .
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All those little gestures formed hut a background to the real art of seduction.
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He had a little hut with a stone floor, and a supply of handles and twigs.
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And there was the little hut ... He didn't know himself what he meant by that ... Wycliffian dialectic.
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In the inhabitants' little huts or dilapidated houses?
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There was Stanley, one-handed Stanley, hook-handed Stanley, listening in his little hut to his radio.
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He was sitting in the little hut where you bought your tickets to get on to the Big Wheel.
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She could see one now, hurrying through the herb garden to the little hut where they worked.
old
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The path eventually emerges at an old fishing hut on the shore of Loch Avich.
small
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Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire.
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A hard dirt path leads into the village past a cluster of small bamboo huts .
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And at the bottom of the dip stood a small stone hut with a broken-backed roof.
tiny
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She looked again at the tiny hut .
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Wealth, culture, and international adventure had turned a tiny collection of huts into a huge sandstone metropolis.
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She felt the tremor of their footsteps first, and it was as though the tiny hut quaked at their arrival.
wooden
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There are also some wooden huts and everything is fenced in to keep out the wolves and curious locals.
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Inside there were some long wooden huts which occupied almost all the space.
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This is a direct transference to stone or brick building of the primitive wooden hut method mentioned earlier. 2.
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Above them, little wooden huts were perched in higher meadows.
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This was a wooden hut in which there was some old machinery that generated electricity for the house.
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He lives in a glorious wooden hut with several equally attractive out-buildings.
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I decided against looking into the tumbledown wooden hut that had once housed the coal hopper controls.
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It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field.
■ NOUN
bamboo
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Carey set to work clearing the jungle and erecting a little bamboo hut with fences to keep out tigers!
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A hard dirt path leads into the village past a cluster of small bamboo huts .
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The hostages had been kept in mud and bamboo huts in a mosquito-infested swamp area.
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At one time they had to dive out of the bamboo hut in which they were sheltering when a gunfight erupted.
mountain
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Money raised will go towards building a mountain hut , with disabled access, in the Lake District National Park.
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Most continental high mountain areas are well served by networks of mountain huts and refuges, usually offering dormitory accommodation.
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He took me to a mountain hut where he lit a fire.
mud
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To our western eyes as he stood in his raggy, holed clothes in front of his mud hut he would appear very poor.
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Cataracts launched them downriver before they had time to think; waves like mud huts threw them eight feet into the air.
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In a mud hut on an endless plain, she sorted through the bones of unrecognizable animals.
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Its architecture consists of round, thatched mud huts set off by straw fences.
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The geography of evil: tunnels and bamboo thickets and mud huts and graves.
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The mud hut that calls itself a hospital contains nothing but flies.
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Kamilo said her mud hut had been entered just a few days earlier by thieves who stole her only bedsheet.
■ VERB
build
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Environmental impacts have been minimised by using local woods and grasses to build the huts and the comfortable lounge and bar area.
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Assume that the skipper can catch a fish dinner in 10 hours and build a thatched hut in 20.
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The volunteers built thatched huts , and citizens of Stamford, dressed as Bohemian villagers, arrived to inhabit them.
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Since building a hut is a smaller sacrifice for the skipper, he should build huts.
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She points out which fungi they ate, as well as which woods were used in the building of huts and canoes.
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She and her husband and six children are struggling to build a one-room mud hut on the grounds of the camp.
live
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He earns $ 15 a month and lives in a dark hut on the zoo grounds.
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People lived in makeshift huts fashioned of petrol drums and torn parachutes, of wood, tin, and rice sacks.
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Marion was living in a hut up on the moor.
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He has lived in his rickety hut for most of his fifty years.
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People lived in one hut , in a group.
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Kitty had lived in huts such as these and around these woods for more than fifty years.
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They drilled with one of the groups out there, living in open huts made of eucalyptus logs and assorted vines.
reach
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We had reached the hut and I didn't know what to do.
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Christine reached the hut from the road by a steep track through the scrub and so avoided the house.
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It was a long bus-ride to reach those low huts standing behind the high fence.
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Backpacking the route also offers security against not reaching a hut .
thatched
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If I come back in another ten years I may well find only donkeys in thatched huts .
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Assume that the skipper can catch a fish dinner in 10 hours and build a thatched hut in 20.
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Its architecture consists of round, thatched mud huts set off by straw fences.
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The volunteers built thatched huts , and citizens of Stamford, dressed as Bohemian villagers, arrived to inhabit them.
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Tall bamboos appeared beside the highway again, and a settlement with low wooden shops, and thatched huts like haystacks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At last there was the hut , crouched near its grove of hives.
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He walked down the path to the little hut .
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In one sense, nobody at the zoo lost a job, hut in another sense everyone did.
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It was a visionary move for a city of 500 residents, huddled around adobe huts in Old Town.
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She did it not to scare me, hut to teach me the facts of life.
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The next day we were informed that we weren't allowed to use the huts again.
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There are also some wooden huts and everything is fenced in to keep out the wolves and curious locals.
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To our western eyes as he stood in his raggy, holed clothes in front of his mud hut he would appear very poor.