adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a naked/an open flame (= not enclosed with a cover )
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Never use a naked flame near spray paint.
invisible to the naked eye
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Using a telescope, Galileo discovered stars that were invisible to the naked eye .
stripped naked
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The boys stripped naked and jumped in the pond.
the simple/plain/naked truth (= the truth, with nothing added, left out, or hidden )
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The simple truth is that there isn’t enough money to pay for it.
visible to the naked eye (= able to be seen without using special equipment )
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The comet is now visible to the naked eye.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Sometimes the face of the Sun is covered in sunspots; other times it is almost naked of them.
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It grows very quickly in the emersed form, and its stems and leaves are almost naked .
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Just inside the foyer there was a long narrow mirror with an almost naked woman painted on it.
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In front of him Renate was almost naked , but she recovered from her surprise quickly enough.
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She felt almost naked , as if she were parading in her chemise.
as
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Now with the beautiful girl as naked model he works again - and disrupts his life.
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His discomfort, his near contempt for the give-and-take of promotion is as naked as his shaven head.
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They were as naked as the woman, and unarmed.
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I was as naked as my lust.
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Suddenly she stopped, and there was a look on her face ... I can only describe it as naked lust.
completely
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Not a completely naked woman, not under any circumstances.
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He was stretched out on his back, his sheet tossed off, completely naked and heedless.
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When she was completely naked she turned to stare at him.
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Removing the coat revealed her to be completely naked , which finally put the cat among the pigeons: they were banished!
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The ventral interradial areas are completely naked .
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Behind him, one of the girls floated past, completely naked , on her way to the bathroom.
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He didn't like to make Viola completely naked - it seemed too prurient.
half
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He drifts round the corner, half naked .
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Cold and half naked in the darkened bedroom, Cantor felt the day had taken a shape for the worse.
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One of them, half naked , is as black as a Negro.
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Her eyes widened, glowing at the half naked girl beside her.
stark
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I was stark naked and trussed up like a Haggis in mourning.
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The tormented Onna, stark naked , pushed the blade in and pulled it sideways.
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Adam struggled, but he was too weak and the storm-troopers tore his trousers off, leaving him stark naked .
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At that the quilt flew into the air and Joy and Janir erupted from it stark naked .
there
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Beneath the silken sheets his father lay there naked , the frailty of his body revealed.
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In other camps rats lived under the seats and bit people as they sat there naked .
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And then Murtach was crouched there naked in the night, watching him.
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They stood there naked and shivering, huddled together as a soldier walked round them, prodding them with a baton.
■ NOUN
aggression
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With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression , they are baring their souls and they are angry.
body
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It reminded her how he had given her naked body that same assessment in the shower last night.
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Twisted, starved, naked bodies stacked up like cordwood or tossed into great open pits.
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She went under completely and on her way down Fernando caught her and raked her all the way down his naked body .
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She wanted to feel Roman's skin against her and his hands on her naked body .
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The doll had pins piercing the location of the heart when the police found it lying on the victim's naked body .
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Quills is actually pretty tame on that front, with only a few naked bodies and a smattering of blood.
chest
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And somehow she couldn't stop her gaze from straying to the triangle of naked chest where his shirt buttons were open.
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By now his feet ached, and his naked chest was frozen as senseless as an iron shield.
eye
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Technical problems To the naked eye the brain has a disturbingly homogeneous appearance.
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To the naked eye , the bolts looked just like the others that protruded from other footings around the site.
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It is easily visible with the naked eye , and binoculars give it a vaguely cruciform appearance.
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The magnification is usually at least thirty times greater than what is normally seen with the naked eye .
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He saw that there were many stars invisible to the naked eye .
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In coarse-grained rocks the minerals are large enough to be seen with the naked eye .
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It is visible with the naked eye , and its position close to Eta and Mu makes it very easy to locate.
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Very simple geometrical forms exist in nature out there but most of them are ordinarily invisible to the naked eye .
girl
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The defendant's house was raided and photographs of naked girls were found.
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He felt a stillness, looking at his first naked girl , grown-up, outside a magazine.
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Two elderly men were crouched over a naked girl who was strapped face down to some form of wooden rack.
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Her eyes widened, glowing at the half naked girl beside her.
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A naked girl burst through the crust, and the guest of honor reeled her in on a ribbon leash.
lady
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But he could not quite help wondering if anyone would mistake him, Gabriel, for a naked lady .
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Patrol cars cruised the intersection looking for a naked lady , but never stopped at the gas station.
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All he knows is that a naked lady appeared outside his window Monday morning.
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Every inch of space was covered with glossy colored pictures of naked ladies .
light
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This gives a double meaning to Blanche's hatred of naked light .
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Obviously this is untrue - it is not the naked light that Blanche can not stand, it is the truth.
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She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light .
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A very powerful naked light bulb hung from the office ceiling.
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She turned, all flaxen and pink and white, haloed by the naked light bulbs round the mirror.
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He is like a naked light .
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She hasn't got you locked up in a room with a naked light bulb.
man
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A naked man covered in tar and soot slithered by in pursuit of three young, giggling girls.
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Last week, two community newspapers in Howard County ran front-page, color photographs of a naked man tending a campfire.
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Couldn't you dedicate a few months of the year to naked men ?
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I looked down the street and I saw an entirely naked man walking along, smeared in ash.
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Oh yes, and there were two naked men in the room.
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Some people keep tapes of naked men and women, gasping and sweaty.
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The photograph depicted two naked men , engaged in one of the most nauseating of homosexual acts.
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No clothes, no corruption, Fong had reasoned: how do you go about bribing a naked man ?
people
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Should we remove all pictures of naked people from gallery walls?
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A straight and handsome tall white hunter is seen surrounded by tiny, Swarming naked people .
shoulder
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Slipping the garment over her naked shoulders , she pulled it around herself and fastened the belt.
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She put a warm hand on his naked shoulder .
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Even in the darkness she caught the sweep of his eyes touching her naked shoulders .
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She lay there, face down on her cot, her long, ash blonde hair spilling out across her naked shoulders .
truth
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And that's the naked truth Yes that's the naked truth.
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Revealed ... the naked truth about Paul McCartney.
woman
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Not a completely naked woman , not under any circumstances.
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As a hermit living in a cave, he refused the flock of naked women sent to tempt him.
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There were police cars, fire engines, helicopters - oh yeah, and a naked woman .
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Just inside the foyer there was a long narrow mirror with an almost naked woman painted on it.
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She was just another naked woman in a painting.
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It was as if he'd never seen a naked woman .
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Through another door that had been left ajar, she could see a soldier moving on top of a naked woman .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
buck naked
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And then she comes out of the room buck naked.
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We are all buck naked before the information providers of this world.
stark naked
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Adam struggled, but he was too weak and the storm-troopers tore his trousers off, leaving him stark naked.
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At that the quilt flew into the air and Joy and Janir erupted from it stark naked.
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He seemed embarrassed to be confronted by a woman, stark naked and a good twelve inches shorter than himself.
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He was still stark naked but had decided to get dressed.
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I was stark naked and trussed up like a Haggis in mourning.
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Sunny Jim is stark naked with a big piece of pizza in his right hand.
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The tormented Onna, stark naked, pushed the blade in and pulled it sideways.
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When they appeared in the dock they constituted the largest number of people ever to appear stark naked in a court room.
the naked eye
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The comet will be visible to the naked eye .
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At the same time, they became the first men to see the reverse side of the Moon with the naked eye .
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He examined the pieces with the naked eye , then with his glass, while behind him Isobel held her breath.
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Technical problems To the naked eye the brain has a disturbingly homogeneous appearance.
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The magnification is usually at least thirty times greater than what is normally seen with the naked eye .
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There are even several, in addition to the Pleiades, which can be seen with the naked eye .
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To the naked eye , the bolts looked just like the others that protruded from other footings around the site.
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Today, poverty is still obvious to the naked eye .
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What looked like individual lights to the naked eye actually split into two under the resolving power of the telescope.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Claire walks around naked all the time.
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He was lying on the bed, completely naked .
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I walked in, and Mr Tolifero was standing there buck naked .
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The magazine was full of pictures of naked men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He felt a stillness, looking at his first naked girl, grown-up, outside a magazine.
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He pulled it off and threw it behind him, revealing himself naked to the waist.
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His knowledge is slim, transparent to the naked eye.
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Male bodies, nearly naked , flesh rigid with cold beneath a silvery moon, were a brand-new experience to her.
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Nor did her current lack of encouragement prevent him from continuing to imagine her naked .
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We all had swimsuits on, we weren't stripped naked .
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Without ceremony she dropped her silk gown, standing naked but for her briefs and her tattoos, which were all black.