adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an infinite/endless variety
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There is a seemingly infinite variety of beers to choose from.
infinite mercy (= the quality of mercy that God has, which never ends )
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He expressed his thanks for the infinite mercy of God in helping him escape from his own sinful life.
infinite/endless/unlimited patience
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She was lucky to have a maths teacher with infinite patience.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document.
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It is clear, as Chomsky ceaselessly points out, that language competence enables almost infinite variations in language performance.
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Each fender is designed to fit the customer's fireplace and there is an almost infinite combination of styles and materials available.
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Thus the number of possible scenarios for the life, evolution and disappearance of musical instruments is almost infinite .
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The types of finance are almost infinite .
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But those rules can take an almost infinite variety of forms.
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The insect body has produced an almost infinite variety of forms.
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amount
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But, between any moment of proper time and the c-boundary, an infinite amount of information-processing is possible.
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Anyone could make an infinite amount of money in such a world.
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An infinite amount of information-processing allows an infinite amount of life and thought, and thus an infinite amount of subjective time.
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Our use of an infinitary rule, which requires an apparently infinite amount of work to verify its preconditions, appears undesirable.
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An infinite amount of information-processing allows an infinite amount of life and thought, and thus an infinite amount of subjective time.
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Gravitational collapse releases energy; and collapse to a single, dimensionless point releases an infinite amount of it.
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The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them.
care
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He slammed the door shut, then with infinite care proceeded to lay Kirsty on the back seat.
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With infinite care , Induk slides her arms around my back, cradling me into her heat.
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Slowly, with infinite care , Rourke reached up and untwined the tight band of her fingers from around the heavy ornament.
density
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Would it collapse to infinite density ?
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The universe might then have re-expanded without going through a state of infinite density .
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The work that Penrose and I did showed that they would continue to collapse until they reached a singularity of infinite density .
number
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But the estimates could be wrecked by the infinite number of remaining terms.
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In principle, the question involves knowing what happens after an infinite number of terms of the sequence!
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There would be an infinite number of finite remainders that were not determined by the theory.
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Smalltalk could potentially offer an infinite number of scenarios, each of them a new world with windows opening into the informationscape.
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Such a theory would have no predictive power because one could never measure all the infinite number of parameters.
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Every window into the divine has its own angle and there is an infinite number of angles.
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This stage game is repeated a finite or an infinite number of times, then play ends.
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A bird in the hand is never worth an infinite number of birds in the bush.
patience
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Then he gently eased her arms down, and with infinite patience began to stroke her nightdress from her body.
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A man possessed of infinite patience .
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A really good listener who has infinite patience .
regress
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Also, when considering development, it must be stressed that we do not have to depend on an infinite regress .
sequence
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Our past experience might suggest that there is an infinite sequence of layers of structure at higher and higher energies.
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Possibility 2 would amount to a picture of an infinite sequence of structures at higher and higher energies.
set
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This hypothesis generates an infinite set of indifference curves which are convex to the L axis.
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There are certainly infinitely many different infinite sets , so I is itself infinite.
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The changes that they underwent are an infinite set of variations on a relatively limited number of themes.
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Perhaps the reader has indeed got the impression by now that all infinite sets are countable.
space
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And Earth is not just another planet whirling around the sun on its endless journey through infinite space .
time
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At a given moment finite time came into existence out of infinite time.
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Working with organizations, or working to help people get organizations started, requires infinite time and patience.
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It goes through a cycle of changes until it finally returns to its original state and then merges into infinite time .
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Thus, they may be thought of as sources of financing with an infinite time horizon.
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Given infinite time , or infinite opportunities, anything is possible.
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As the infinite time horizon case is simpler to treat we begin with this.
variety
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This should remind of you of the infinite varieties in any one colour and also set you thinking about texture.
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The universe offers no such categories or simplifications; only flux and infinite variety .
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The sun on its endless tour round and round the sky gives shadows and hues of infinite variety .
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It is impossible to describe the infinite variety of hysterical gaits.
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Ready to yield up its infinite variety .
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The infinite variety of questions and possible answers, of course, account for the diversity within the subgenre.
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Aristotle would then be saying that the infinite variety of size of Democritean atoms was all below the threshold of perception.
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They are available in infinite variety .
wisdom
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What will the infinite wisdom of the universe do with itself as it rushes towards that point?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in sb's (infinite) wisdom
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The board, in its infinite wisdom , has decided to give Waters back his job.
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King, in his finite wisdom , figured out that three fights would make more money than one.
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My daughter, the poet, says Sofia was the goddess in charge of wisdom long ago.
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Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
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The Government had in its wisdom decided on the former - hence the Black and Tans.
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The Guardian, in its wisdom , plucks out of the blue a figure of £200 million.
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There will be many a swing in both conventional wisdom and political fortunes between now and November.
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These attitudes have persisted in the conventional wisdom .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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infinite space
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A natural language contains an infinite number of grammatical sentences.
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It's difficult to really imagine an infinite universe.
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One of Keyes' gifts is her infinite patience.
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She was a woman of seemingly infinite patience.
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The variations of color that a human eye can see are infinite .