noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a motorway junction (= a place where you can join or leave the motorway )
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Their stores are all situated near major motorway junctions.
a road junction (= place where two or more roads meet )
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It was a busy road junction.
box junction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
busy
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Look to turn right, across a busy junction at the end of the motorway.
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Giving buses priority at busy junctions would also speed up travel times, says Mr Tapper.
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It avoids some nasty main roads and busy junctions , including roundabouts.
dangerous
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A dangerous junction in Darlington could soon be closed to motorists after a series of accidents.
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New risk determination procedures introduced after the three crashes revealed Newton to be the most dangerous junction in the country.
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Installing cameras at dangerous road junctions to film those who drive through red traffic lights.
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Thus at dangerous junctions risky events are easily recognized, but a safer junctions non-risky events are best recognized.
low
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These numbers are surprisingly low , no junction had a mean accident or risk rating above the midpoint of the scale.
main
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The significant main effect of junction type for both descriptions and potential risks is difficult to accommodate within this framework.
tight
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Morphologically, this barrier is provided principally with tight junctions between gastric surface mucous cells.
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Meye etal reported that tight junctions in the canine gastric mucosa were significantly damaged by exposure to aspirin.
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In our study, tight junctions were often characterised by discontinuity and decreased numbers of tight junctional strands.
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In addition, hyperplastic tight junctions and free ending basal extensions of tight junctional strands were occasionally seen.
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Using electron microscopy, Rubin etal showed that the tight junctions appeared morphologically unchanged in untreated coeliac disease patients.
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Electron microscopy showed typical gall bladder epithelia with microvilli, tight junctions , and mucus droplets.
■ NOUN
box
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But we need explosives to take out the island or the junction box up above.
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Fans up to 35 pounds can be installed in a secured junction box , but anything heavier will need additional support.
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This in turn led to the arm and gun junction boxes being redesigned horizontally next to each other rather than grouped centrally at the front.
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With the junction box method of wiring, you may simply be able to re-use the cable for the new light fitting.
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Option 1 is to connect the supply cable as a spur to an existing loop-in ceiling rose or junction box .
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Draw the cables up into the ceiling void, and reconnect them to a four-terminal junction box .
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Not that you could take what was left of your mind off the sockets and the junction boxes .
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Option 3 involves making a brand new connection to an existing lighting circuit at a convenient point, using a four-terminal junction box .
gap
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Interestingly, gap junctions in patients with recurrent ulcer were much fewer than in patients with first onset ulcer.
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These results suggest that the loss of intercellular communication mediated by gap junctions may be associated with the recurrence of gastric ulcers.
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The criterion for a gap junction was a minimum of 20 membrane particles in a plaque.
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The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers.
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Small gap junctions were observed between gastric surface mucous cells in all healthy volunteers.
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There was no obvious relationship between age and the development of gap junctions in patients with gastric ulcer or in healthy volunteers.
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These findings suggest that loss of intercellular communication via gap junctions is associated with gastric ulcer formation.
railway
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Later the same day, Sugar was off again, this time to bomb the railway junction at Revigny.
road
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In Berlin, Friedrichstrasse meets Zimmerstrasse at a very ordinary road junction across which traffic flows freely.
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Turn right and go to the Newport/Pontfaen road junction .
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Over the weekend the army stepped up patrols across the West Bank and Gaza and placed armour at most road junctions .
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Walk ahead on road , past first road junction on left, to chapel crossroads.
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Thirty yards ahead, an innocent rural road junction presented its prosaic features for inspection.
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Continue on rising path to road junction at Webbers Post.
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Continue on to reach the road , turn right over it to cross the Nedd Fechan and go to the road junction .
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At the road junction turn right to Roslin Farm and walk between the farm buildings.
■ VERB
reach
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But instead of reaching the junction , his fingers closed around a slim square box.
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He reached a junction only to find that the right-hand alley was blocked by a rusty bedstead.
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Go east, south-east and east again to reach path junction .
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I look round as I reach a junction in the corridor and he quickly pops back into his office.
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I screeched back after her, reaching the junction in time to see her continue on her way to Wilmslow.
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Turn left on reaching junction with hard track 5.
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Cross the stile and turn left on to the lane, past a red-tiled cottage, until you reach a junction of tracks.
show
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Here each film shows a different junction so it is necessary to use a new method of dividing the data.
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Using electron microscopy, Rubin etal showed that the tight junctions appeared morphologically unchanged in untreated coeliac disease patients.
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The area shown is the junction of the San Juan and Colorado rivers in Utah.
use
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Subjects performed one practice trial using a junction not shown in the experimental stimuli before starting the description phase of the experiment.
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You can also use these flashing tapes over mortar fillets used to seal wall-roof junctions , provided the mortar fillet is sound.
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If the cost of fibres falls sufficiently, Telecom will start using fibres for its junction networks inside city areas.
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The previous proposal to prohibit vehicles using the southern junction has been discontinued.
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Option 3 involves making a brand new connection to an existing lighting circuit at a convenient point, using a four-terminal junction box.
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Hong Kong might be able to deal with traffic by using key junctions .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a highway junction
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I live in a block of flats at the junction of Cambridge Road and Kilburn High Street.
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One of Britain's worst rail accidents happened at Clapham Junction .