adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
conversation
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If such individuals and such imaginary conversations could provide Mrs Clinton with guidance, she had every right to seek them out.
line
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In simple terms the fleet has to start through an imaginary line usually drawn between a mast and buoy.
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Because at impact the club face of his driver was not square to the imaginary line that runs to the target.
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Centreline An imaginary line drawn lengthways down the middle of the board.
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A maple-leaf flag painted on a mailbox, an imaginary line across the dark stretch of highway.
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The particles in the; lattice are joined by imaginary lines called lattice lines.
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On day ninety-two we had crossed the imaginary line of 1, 000 miles between us and California.
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Cap line an imaginary line across the top of capital letters.
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Draw an imaginary line from the centre of eye to under the cheekbone and start there, pushing upwards.
time
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What is the point of introducing the concept of imaginary time ?
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But the imaginary time direction is at right angles to real time.
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However, the beginning in imaginary time will not be a singularity.
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But the histories of the particles in imaginary time would continue.
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The three space directions and imaginary time would form a space-time that was closed in on itself, without boundaries or edges.
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Only if we could picture the universe in terms of imaginary time would there be no singularities.
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This means that what happened in imaginary time could be calculated.
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And if you know the history of the universe in imaginary time , you can calculate how it behaves in real time.
world
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The individual suspends his critical judgement and involvement in external reality to becoming passively absorbed in an imaginary world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Frankie was the kind of guy who lived in an imaginary world all of his own.
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He pointed an imaginary gun at me and pretended to shoot.
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Many young children have imaginary playmates.
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The events described in the book are imaginary .
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When Linda was a child she had an imaginary friend called Booboo.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall, cut off from the rest of the Church.
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Cadets are in disarray, Directing Staff shouting advice and encouragement, and the imaginary enemy winning!
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Father saw me throwing imaginary punches on the stairs, and asked me to show him.
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If such individuals and such imaginary conversations could provide Mrs Clinton with guidance, she had every right to seek them out.
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She'd always had to have an imaginary life simultaneously, as the real one was inadequate.
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The individual suspends his critical judgement and involvement in external reality to becoming passively absorbed in an imaginary world.
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We've used an imaginary case history to illustrate them.