noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an island chain
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the island chain from Asia to Australasia
desert island
traffic island
uninhabited island
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an uninhabited island
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Suppose the economy is not one large , unified entity but is instead divided into a large number of islands .
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The greatest resistance to union came primarily from the Gaelic peoples who inhabited the largest separate island to the west, Ireland.
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Elba is the largest island off the Tuscan coast but is still small enough to explore with ease.
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Tioman is the largest east-coast island , its smaller neighbours are mostly little-developed with unspoilt beaches.
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Then, confident that we hadn't missed many, we set course for the larger island of Whalsay.
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The largest island in the Bay of Naples it boasts a bustling port, thermal spas and sandy beaches.
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The largest of the islands , Majorca, has much more to recommend it than just beaches.
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Porto Santo is the second largest island in the Madeira group, and the only other one which is populated.
little
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As we walked around this pretty little island we were charmed by the friendliness of the local people.
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As they approached the first little island , Claude cut down on the power and turned north along the shoreline.
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For the Out Skerries comprise a group of three little islands which are conveniently arranged to form a perfect natural harbour.
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The handsome park adjoining the palace was almost empty of people but two screaming peacocks on a little island provided company enough.
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The little island seemed to float before her in the purply twilight, partly masked by a stand of reeds and cattails.
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In spring and early summer, some of the little islands here are a stunning mass of bluebells.
main
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Damage on all three main inhabited islands was estimated at US$1,000 million.
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The nearest hospital is on the main island , and the boat comes only once or twice a day.
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The other main islands are named Great and Little Piton.
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Okinawa, the main island in the Ryukyu archipelago, is only seventy miles long and seven miles wide.
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Tobago, the smaller of the country's two main constituent islands , achieved full internal self-government in early 1987.
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Meanwhile Miyako Immigration would send a message about Loi to their headquarters on the main island of Honshu.
remote
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Not once, even in the most remote spots and island hideaways, has Diana forgotten to put on her bikini top.
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Despite evidence in the 40s that leprosy was rarely contagious and easily treated, lepers were banished to remote islands until 1996.
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Many other botanists have also visited the remote and outlying islands during the period under discussion.
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He should know; he was once warden of the remote island of Skokholm off the Pembrokeshire coast.
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Bergman was 47 when he met Ullmann, with whom he settled on the remote island of Faro in 1967.
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No forgotten outcast on a remote island ever had to put up with anything like this.
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Bird's island haven A REMOTE Donegal island is proving a haven for a native bird threatened by extinction.
small
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This is a small island and tongues are beginning to wag.
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A crowd looked down from the edge of a small island of muddy roadway.
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This club was on a small island off the coast; it was reached by a causeway.
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There is a small island off the coast just there, with the remains of a broch on it.
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After sailing all day, I reached a small island , where I slept that night.
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Isolated cottage on small Hebridean island off the coast of Mull.
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Huemul turned out to be a small island in lake Nahuel Huapi, high on the slopes of the Patagonian Andes.
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On a small island like this, that is a very important thing.
tiny
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Each time we crossed the causeway over to the tiny island of Reine, we paused and photographed.
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Sunrise engulfs the tiny island , dawn all around us.
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An animal that once ranged over thousands of miles is forced to migrate to a tiny island .
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Sepulchers face the sea, as on the mainland, but on this tiny island death seems everywhere.
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It would have filled in the lake that had always separated their tiny island from the mainland.
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The tiny island is now a National Nature Reserve, famous for seabirds and seals.
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Already the national press and media were gathering in this tiny island .
uninhabited
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The two seek refuge on an uninhabited island .
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The new airport was to be built at Chek Lap Kok, a largely uninhabited island north of Lantau island.
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It turns the fan at a public toilet on an uninhabited island in Boston Harbor.
whole
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In theory, the whole island could be live and extremely dangerous.
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Seawjter in this house meant the whole island had gone under.
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Yet many subjects throughout the whole island of Britain retained an affection - partly romantic - for the Stuarts.
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The whole island knew how Jesse handled the fish on the wharf at Mackerel Cove.
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To the whole island he was Bellybutton.
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March 17 is an official holiday when the whole island drops everything to tip their pints and dance to fife and drum.
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He has a passion to bring spiritual renewal to the whole island .
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Perhaps deities were transported in ships to describe a magic circle of divine protection round the whole island .
■ NOUN
arc
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One very obvious form is the volcanism of island arcs and continental-margin orogens associated with plate convergence.
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The second category is closely related to oceanic trenches and their associated island arcs or mountain belts.
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Where oceanic lithosphere is subducted beneath another oceanic part of a plate the associated volcanic activity and produce an intra-oceanic island arc .
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In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
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Such back-arc spreading is analogous to that encountered behind some intra-oceanic island arcs .
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Unless the island arc is subducted it will be accreted to the continental-margin orogen previously formed along the edge of the continent.
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Convergent boundaries between oceanic lithosphere are marked by an oceanic trench, a volcanic island arc and a Wadati-Benioff zone.
desert
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Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island .
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One person can live on a desert island without leader-ship.
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But for the moment, it seems he isn't the luxury most women want to take on a desert island with them.
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The witch Sycorax, who died shortly before Prospero arrived, had enchanted the desert island .
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If you were abandoned on a desert island , you would have total personal sovereignty to do exactly what you want.
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His bookishness became useful when he began to study magic on the desert island .
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But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island .
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The plan was to fly to the Cook islands , and spend at least three months alone on a desert island.
traffic
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The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island , surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.
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Somehow his Volkswagen had climbed up on to a traffic island .
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In Bombay, for instance, every thousand people have only 0.1 hectares of open space - and this includes traffic islands .
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We round a couple of buoys beaded with cats' eyes; sea traffic islands .
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No one ever walks round a traffic island .
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This viewpoint today would come from the middle of a traffic island .
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I guided him to the traffic island in the middle.
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At second traffic island following sign to Beaumaris.
■ VERB
leave
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She promised the community's support and help if indeed the parents and their witnesses had to leave the island .
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Alfred Anderson lost touch with the two men when he left the island in 1959.
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As soon as the men left the island a thunderbolt shattered the ship.
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How happy I was to leave the island !
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There have been too many stops on the road of the last twenty-nine years since her family left this island behind.
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Only the mountains were left above water, islands rising from the turbulent waves.
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Before we left the island for good though we had one last place to go.
live
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Tamils and Sinhalese have lived together on the island for 2,000-odd years.
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One person can live on a desert island without leader-ship.
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The people who were evacuated live on islands in the Zambezi.
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She lived on an island and slept, she wrote, on the beach.
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Besides Amy there were apparently two families living on the island .
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If I lived on an island , I would want to know how to swim, too.
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The pains of living in an overcrowded island are apparent enough for those who have to travel inside it.
visit
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This type of person continued to visit the island until the 1960s and the advent of air travel for all.
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Wildlife enthusiasts may prefer to visit the nature reserve islands of Oxney and Thanet.
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In 1695, he toured both the Inner and the Outer Hebrides, visiting many of the islands personally.
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For real life, visit Moila, the island of the ivory tower.
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We had come to Phang Nga to visit the limestone islands that rear in their hundreds from the bay.
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Le Monde of Aug. 21 reported that the Prime Minister was to visit the island shortly.
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Travelling further by ferry to visit the islands of Ithaka and Cephalonia is possible from about June.
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We were intending to visit the island anyway, so on arrival a week later we called on Tony's coach.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For centuries, Switzerland was an island of peace in troubled Europe.
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the island of Trinidad
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the Hawaiian Islands
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Finch approached Howland, she, too, realized how fortunate she was to be able to find the island .
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Flotillas of tabular icebergs and ice islands sail among the pack ice.
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Moles floated like islands on both temples.
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Occasional islands of regenerative mucosa were present.
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Sepulchers face the sea, as on the mainland, but on this tiny island death seems everywhere.
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The morning of our last day on the island is brighter.
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There are beaches of rounded grey basalt pebbles of varying sizes elsewhere around the island .