I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Arctic Monkeys
cheeky devil/monkey etc
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You did that on purpose, you cheeky little devil!
monkey bars
monkey nut
monkey wrench
rhesus monkey
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bar
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A last ray of burning rusty light glanced off the monkey bars , where Wyatt remembered playing, himself as a kid.
brass
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Why doesn't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ?
rhesus
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Several storeys below, in a cage in the research and development department, sat an unhappy looking rhesus monkey .
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Occupational therapist Mary Schneider and her colleagues studied 33 pregnant rhesus monkeys .
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For example, V4 in rhesus monkeys contains a very high density of colour coding cells that are unresponsive to white stimuli.
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In the gardens of a Buddhist temple somewhere in the Far East sat a contented looking rhesus monkey .
spider
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In Amazonia woolly monkeys and spider monkeys have been wiped out by over-hunting.
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In spider monkeys the reverse applies: Females leave home.
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Woolly monkeys and howlers, spider monkeys and capuchins, tamarins and marmosets scramble around one another reaching for the fruit.
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But baboons and spider monkeys take for granted the fact that their societies are strictly stratified.
wrench
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While Elinor lived, Adam dared not risk flinging a monkey wrench into that dream.
■ VERB
give
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Par of me couldn't give a monkeys about the entire operation.
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He convinced local landholders to give the monkeys safe haven by setting aside land as a preserve.
infect
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After all, if HIV-1 is a monkey virus that recently jumped to humans, where are the infected monkeys?
throw
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I was letting them throw the monkey on my back.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it's brass monkeys/brass monkey weather
throw a (monkey) wrench in sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Stop that, you little monkey !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birds, snakes, lizards, fish and monkeys are wild animals which adapt badly to a caged life.
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For example, area V4 in monkeys is specialized for processing colour information but doesn't encode other attributes like motion or position.
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He convinced local landholders to give the monkeys safe haven by setting aside land as a preserve.
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It is an unspectacular-looking place of prefab houses and beehive-like cages where some 5, 000 monkeys live and 35 employees work.
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Then, as he placed the net on the table, the wildly chattering monkey grew quiet.
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Under it I might have been a performing bear or a monkey on a chain.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Seems there was some others saw him after I did, monkeying about by that cave-in again.