noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gain momentum (= keep increasing )
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In the 1850s and 1860s, the British colonisation of India gained momentum.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
angular
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Similar effects operate for d orbitals, but not for s orbitals, which have no orbital angular momentum .
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How did the planets pick up the necessary angular momentum , and why do the planets have different chemical compositions?
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The resulting system could have a huge angular momentum with a very well-defined direction.
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Other factors also come into account such as the angular momentum of the two bodies.
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How is it, then, that the correspondence with the angular momentum of classical physics is to be made?
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The situation is similar with any other classically measurable property of a system, not just angular momentum .
forward
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The aggressor's own forward momentum even strengthens the force of the counter-blow against him.
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She left, and it took her partner a year to build the forward momentum she had disrupted by her sudden departure.
gained
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The Buddhist revival gained momentum in the 1870s after a series of public debates between Buddhist and Protestant preachers increased Buddhist self-confidence.
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A price was certainly to be paid later, when criticisms that grammar-school standards had been destroyed gained momentum and credibility.
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The vehicle gained momentum as the road dipped.
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As the binary policy gained momentum , it remained possible to have that impression.
gathered
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The deterioration in MacDonald rapidly gathered momentum .
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Shares in the food and drinks conglomerate surged by 8 percent in a week as speculation about a bid gathered momentum .
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As the J-Boat bandwagon gathered momentum , other designs took shape on Rod Johnstone's board.
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It probably even gathered momentum from Tom's absence.
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Taxis vanished as the rain gathered momentum , and he was obliged to take the Métro from Etoile to Concorde station.
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Throughout 1989 and 1990 the organization gathered momentum .
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Moisture ran from her brow as the fire flourished and crackled and the pressure inside her gathered fearful momentum .
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Moves towards a more active and coherent Community regional policy gradually gathered momentum throughout the 1960s.
gathering
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It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since.
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If it is accepted that general management is still gathering momentum , more may yet be to come.
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However public protests are also gathering momentum as people realize that shrimp farming seems to be a recipe for disaster.
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Once in the lead there was no stopping the home side as they reinforced their gathering momentum with five second-half tries.
political
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Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.
■ NOUN
state
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Suppose it is a momentum state .
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First let us recall our description of a momentum state .
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But position states are not orthogonal to momentum states.
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What does a momentum state look like as a 4,-curve?
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It is what allows us to compose momentum states out of position states, or position states out of momentum states.
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The momentum states will also be represented in this same Hilbert space.
■ VERB
acquire
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Once they began, they acquired momentum of their own, and the size of the purge made it credible.
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And if both went well, he might acquire a momentum of success.
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One is that, as David Mellor or several members of the royal family might attest, cumulative disclosures acquire momentum .
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Since Wilder announced his candidacy in September 1991, his campaign had failed to acquire any significant momentum .
add
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Such factors have conspired to add momentum to the drive for even greater central control by government.
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With added momentum , the mob turned its vengeance on the black populace.
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The 9 percent PacTel vote adds momentum to this campaign.
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The protest added to momentum created during a larger demonstration Monday in the central business district.
begin
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Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods.
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Once they began , they acquired momentum of their own, and the size of the purge made it credible.
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The project began to generate a momentum of demolition of its own.
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The back of my car began to gain momentum .
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In 1989/90 a further group moved to Leatherhead and another to Wandsworth as the church planting began to gain momentum .
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The crowds in the church, where protest meetings began to gain momentum last month, applauded the bishop.
build
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It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn.
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She left, and it took her partner a year to build the forward momentum she had disrupted by her sudden departure.
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The mailings outlined all sorts of promotions concocted to build momentum for this newest high-end getaway.
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The speaker had built sufficient momentum to survive his mistake.
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They thus built on the momentum they had gained in convention by moving about among the people.
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But that has allowed Forbes to build the momentum that Dole now seeks to regain.
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The important thing is to win every game we can and build some momentum .
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The pair, assigned to cover the Fox campaign, watched as it slowly built momentum .
continue
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The strikes continue to gather momentum .
develop
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Heseltine's campaign team, having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks, had already developed a considerable momentum .
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Long before that, however, Emor had developed its own momentum .
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And so the assembly developed a momentum of its own.
gain
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The escaping gas gains a momentum in one direction and so the astronaut gains an equal momentum in the opposite direction.
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Clay Shaw of Florida, has failed to gain momentum , and time is running out.
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The Axiam judders and shakes like a very early classic bike then slowly gains momentum rather than actually accelerating.
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If he could emerge triumphant from those events, he believed he would gain the momentum to win the White House.
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The escaping gas gains a momentum in one direction and so the astronaut gains an equal momentum in the opposite direction.
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Biological and entomological studies gained momentum through the photographic record.
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If a punch is aimed at the face, the defender steps out to intercept it before it gains momentum .
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One piece of legislation that has gained momentum amid the concern about workers is a bipartisan bill sponsored by Sen.
gather
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I waited for it to gather momentum .
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The strikes continue to gather momentum .
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Nevertheless, the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum .
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About the time this outcry was gathering momentum , a curve ball landed like a left hook.
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With the wind and waves astern Nada gathered momentum: no turning back now.
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Such is the delight that people take in seeking out follies at weekends that the Fellowship has quickly gathered momentum .
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The principle that nature worked by the simplest means was gathering momentum during the thirteenth century.
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The middle-school initiative, as it gathered momentum in the 1960s, was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology.
give
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That has given momentum to the rumour that Merson and Graham clashed verbally over the player's weight on Monday.
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The first is whether the South Carolina result would give Bush the momentum to win in Michigan.
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I was impressed and it also gave me a lot of momentum for the album.
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A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July.
keep
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It's vital to keep momentum and motivation going.
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How can you keep the momentum ?
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It helps to relax you and provides a beat to keep the momentum going.
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Rice wanted to keep the momentum going that had produced such positive short-term results. 2.
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This continues to happen back and forth, always keeping the momentum total zero.
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That idea, once dismissed as nonsense, keeps gaining momentum .
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They have had to keep the momentum going, too.
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He needs to give the staff pep talks, keep momentum alive.
lose
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Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods.
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Meanwhile, under the pressure of new events, most of the other initiatives had lost momentum .
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Resistance comes from mobile electrons losing momentum in scattering and is usually inevitable except in superconductivity.
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They worry that the university may lose the momentum it has gained since opening for classes in the fall of 1990.
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She lost momentum thinking about it, and he fell asleep before he climaxed.
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The pace of new auto loans also lost momentum from a month earlier.
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The vote fell by 6.2 percent, and the party has lost all momentum .
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Gonzalez insisted that fears of lost momentum should not be a concern.
maintain
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To maintain the upward momentum , Parke must keep his ambitions high, yet keep his feet on the ground.
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He is committed to maintaining that momentum .
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Johnson maintained the momentum with baskets.
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To be blunt about it, the challenge confronting Mr Heseltine is how to maintain his momentum .
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He ignored complaints from alarmed consumer groups in order to maintain popular momentum for a measure he regards as essential.
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Mr Tung must maintain momentum towards democratic reforms, increasing the number of directly elected representatives in the territory's legislature.
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Arizona State maintained a shred of momentum early in the second half.
pick
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Rosler's arrival certainly saw the visitors pick up their attacking momentum .
provide
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This feature can be used to provide simulated inertia and momentum .
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Success, market valuation and cash flow provide a powerful momentum .
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In those circumstances, the displacement system provides its own self-fulfilling momentum .
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The weight of the fly wheel can provide so much momentum by being kicked judiciously that it can rotate continuously.
sustain
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Could she not sustain the momentum , not just on tradesmen's credit but on borrowed money?
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The Government are committed to sustaining the momentum of parliamentary reform.
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Its activities enabled the Heseltine campaign to seize the initiative and sustain a momentum which kept its opponents mostly on the defensive.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gather speed/force/momentum etc
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I said as the train gathered speed.
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I waited for it to gather momentum.
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She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow, gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it.
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The big trimotor gathered speed and roared off down the harbor for more than a mile but never got close to liftoff.
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The strikes continue to gather momentum.
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Then the van rolls forward, gathers speed, and drifts on by.
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These Christians were slow to gather forces for a Reconquista.
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Voucher trouble Shopworkers' union Usdaw has threatened to boycott the government's voucher system for asylum seekers as protests gather momentum.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As the slope got steeper, the sled gathered momentum .
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Carey's momentum carried him past the base.
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The ball was moving along, slowly losing momentum on the bumpy ground.
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We are trying to measure the position and momentum of an electron as accurately as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gonzalez insisted that fears of lost momentum should not be a concern.
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It closes very rapidly and has considerable momentum .
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Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.
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On the Look-Out derives extra momentum from this eccentric procedure.
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Players skate around the ice with realistic momentum , ie you have to slow down to turn round.
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Raymond is traveling full speed downhill on his own momentum .
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The attacker's own momentum pushes him forward on to the blow.
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While critics of his decision gained momentum Thursday, the record shows they face an uphill battle.