I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crescent moon
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a crescent moon
full moon
half moon
moon boot
Moon landings
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the Apollo Moon landings
moon shone
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The moon shone brightly in the sky.
new moon
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Behind those big moon glasses she reminded him of a young owl.
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I watched that big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame.
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She can read. Big green moon and her with a book of poetry her Gran had.
blue
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So now he just comes round once in a blue moon .
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A blue moon is the second full moon in one month.
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Once in a blue moon the addressing system itself changes.
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That happens only once in a blue moon , when the weather is cold enough and thus the ice thick enough.
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The most recent observation of a blue moon was in Edinburgh in 1950.
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And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon .
bright
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There is a bright moon , and the sky is full of stars.
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The sheen of a bright moon revealed the sad carnage of the day, and the horrors of war be-came vividly distinct.
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The full bright moon and the reflection of the snow made a mockery of the night.
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The bright moon shines over the hollow hill.
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The moon was high overhead - a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water.
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A bright moon lighted up the fields and woods.
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There was a bright moon and on looking closer I saw a dark smear coming from his mouth.
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I is a clear night with a bright moon .
crescent
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Now I am passing an area where the crescent moon flag flies over shops, bakeries and mosques.
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A thin crescent moon will appear to the left of Venus the evening of July 6.
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A high wind frayed the sails of clouds until a crescent moon limned each shred with white gold.
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The sun has dipped beneath the horizon, leaving behind a pink glow joined by a crescent moon .
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A crescent moon showed occasionally which helped.
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About frangipani blooms and crescent moons .
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She had a nose stud shaped like a tiny crescent moon and alternate fingernails on both hands were painted black.
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The crescent moon passes Jupiter low in the east before dawn Jan. 18.
full
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It is a beautiful night, a full moon and a few bright stars against the black sky over the Heath.
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The full moon last night was so bright I could almost read by it.
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The full bright moon and the reflection of the snow made a mockery of the night.
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Clouds drifted over to veil the almost full moon , and I heard somewhere from Gammon Ridge a deep, howling wail.
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Overnight the cloud had been whisked away and a full moon hovered in the sky, drenching the rooftops with pale silver.
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It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of Spring.
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His eyes behind the glasses looked like the full moon shining into two windows.
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During the middle of each month the full moon was attacked by a colossal sow and ravenously devoured.
new
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A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky.
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By the time of the next new moon , the tribe had seen one birth and two deaths.
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The night was clear, and arched up from the hills with a new moon rising over their crests.
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It was black as night at new moon and white as frost at first light.
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It was a mild night with clouds drifting across the sky and occasionally obscuring the new moon .
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In section seven she invites the new moon to dance on her heart, so that they can be extinguished together.
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There was a new moon , and its pale light cast soft shadows in the stillness.
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Near the time of new moon there is no point on the Moon that can both see sunlight and transmit to Earth.
■ NOUN
half
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Granny flew high above the roaring treetops, under a half moon .
landing
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As space technology, Bio2 is the most thrilling news since the moon landings .
■ VERB
fly
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The chance of flying to the moon under one's own power has a probability of 0.
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We were now flying to the moon .
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There was as much chance of that as flying to the moon but Wilson was grateful for Pen's long memory.
rise
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The holiday has to do with other worldliness, spectral phenomena, lonesome caped creatures rising across the moon .
set
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The cantata ends with a famous meditation on the setting moon and Pleiades.
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I saw the machine they set down on the moon .
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He was the first person to set foot on the moon . 3.
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I wanted to be the first astronaut to set foot on the moon .
shone
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The sky was clear and a full moon shone , lighting the landscape.
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When the clouds thinned, and the bright moon shone through, the dead arms of the elms seemed to beckon.
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It was a balmy night with a full moon and the city shone Picasso blue.
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The moon shone overhead like a new dime.
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They kept on walking, however, and at night the moon came out and shone brightly.
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A full moon shone through silvery clouds, adding a dreamy air to the scene.
walk
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Everything becomes so much easier and some people have an experience akin to walking on air or walking on the moon .
watch
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To sit by fires and watch the moon rise.
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He watched the moon rise through his binoculars.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
once in a blue moon
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Once in a blue moon Eric will offer to help with the dishes, but usually he doesn't do any housework at all.
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I used to spend a lot of time in London, but now I only go there once in a blue moon.
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We go out to eat once in a blue moon.
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And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon.
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So now he just comes round once in a blue moon.
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That happens only once in a blue moon, when the weather is cold enough and thus the ice thick enough.
promise sb the moon/the earth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the moons of Saturn
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There's no moon tonight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already the moon was up, a full moon bathing everything in a pale blue light.
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But it was like the moon .
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I opened my eyes and through the cabin window saw the sliver of the moon just over the horizon.
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It fell on my legs and lap through the skylight, a lovely slow silver moon .
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Staff here are all over the moon .
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There was nothing she could not do, he said, check the stars, even, and the moon .
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We arrived by the light of the moon .
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You spend the next two days en route to the moon .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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Sometimes it's so they can moon around and say how beautiful it all was and pretend they're still lifers there.
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What good can you do mooning around worrying, picking at your food like an anorexic, and giving yourself splitting headaches?
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But there was no point in mooning around until then.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
once in a blue moon
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Once in a blue moon Eric will offer to help with the dishes, but usually he doesn't do any housework at all.
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I used to spend a lot of time in London, but now I only go there once in a blue moon.
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We go out to eat once in a blue moon.
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And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon.
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So now he just comes round once in a blue moon.
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That happens only once in a blue moon, when the weather is cold enough and thus the ice thick enough.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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One couple mooned the President's limousine as it drove past.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Alice had better get off her high horse and realize there was more to life than mooning over Lester Stoner.
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Is that you mooning about again?
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It's bad enough that Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy, wet behind the ears.
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Sometimes it's so they can moon around and say how beautiful it all was and pretend they're still lifers there.
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What good can you do mooning around worrying, picking at your food like an anorexic, and giving yourself splitting headaches?
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You did not moon about love.