noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an oak/vine/spinach etc leaf (= a leaf from a specific plant or tree )
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Vine leaves stuffed with rice is a typical Greek dish.
poison oak
solid wood/pine/oak etc
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a chest made of solid oak
walnut/maple/oak etc veneer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
carved
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She pressed her back against the door, grateful for the support of its solid carved oak .
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A long, carved oak table dominated the room, heavy chairs to match.
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He ignored the mottled marble floor, the neo-Doric pillars and the intricately carved oak ceiling.
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She traced with her forefinger the silky whorls of the carved garland of oak leaves that swung across both doors.
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The balustrades were carved oak panels decorated with scrolls of acanthus foliage, each newel surmounted by a heavy oak pineapple.
dark
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The floor at the edge was stained a dark oak .
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There were tapestries on the walls and lots of dark oak furniture.
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There is a choice of two traditional timber colours, mahogany or dark oak .
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The new Hampshire collection as a dining range in rich, dark oak .
great
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Above it, on the wall itself, were great tea-chest-sized oak cupboards.
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Here beside a great oak tree I counted the corpses of fifteen men.
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Beyond the river had been a forest, one of the great primeval oak forests of ancient Ireland.
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It was the old one about the tree, the empty wood, the unheard moan of a great oak falling unobserved.
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There, on the great high-backed oak chair, sat the same enormous rat.
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The Judge was sitting in a great , high-backed oak chair, on the right-hand side of a great stone fireplace.
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He resembled a great old oak , now dying, ancient limbs sagging under their own weight, the sap no longer rising.
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Eve's ashes are interred under a great oak at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire.
heavy
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Its feet were the size of dinner platters, and its tail was as long and heavy as an oak limb.
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A heavy oak chair stood by the window.
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She stared, teeth chattering, at white-painted walls, a heavy oak chest, the ornate brass-work of the bed.
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They were both panting slightly by the time they reached the heavy oak door on the third floor.
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And there he stayed as porter Mike Creamer slammed shut its heavy oak door.
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The balustrades were carved oak panels decorated with scrolls of acanthus foliage, each newel surmounted by a heavy oak pineapple.
huge
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On the corner was a huge oak tree.
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Inside, a huge leafless oak has been planted in a glass floor with the roots splayed out beneath your feet.
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She found ample room for her things in the huge oak wardrobe in which Edward's clothes already hung.
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He found a huge , high-backed oak chair and pulled it up beside the fire.
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Bonanza sat in a huge oak chair.
large
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It was a large airy oak beamed room.
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Her office is dominated by a large oak table where she spreads out her work.
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To 1982 again, to the high-ceilinged room in east Beirut where Pierre Gemayel sits behind his large oak desk.
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She followed him into the field and they sat beneath the shade of a large oak tree.
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The creature was hanging from a branch of a large dead oak tree, several hundred feet away.
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Beneath the coffered ceiling, lit by chandeliers, were a number of large oak desks.
live
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But the single factor sacred to everything is the use of live red oak as the heat source.
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It was at the base of this giant live oak that Gen.
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The vegetation consists of coastal sage scrub, chaparral and groves of Englemann oak and live oak.
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Most of the island is covered by a maritime forest of live oak trees with a dense understory of palmettos.
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It is commonly found among California live oak trees.
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One section drops into a ravine filled with live oak and bay.
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It will remove 46 coast live oak trees, they note, and damage some habitat of endangered animals.
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Caltrans says it intends to plant 460 more coast live oak trees along the highway and replace damaged wildlife habitat.
old
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He'd start with the gnarled old oak tree in the graveyard.
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We are coming into the clearing, we are back by the old oak .
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The firelight danced on the old oak walls and threw strange shadows around the room.
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The basement is just ahead of us, the clearing with the old oak is beyond that.
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Up and down they rushed, behind the old oak walls, over the ceiling and under the floor.
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The wedding will be in June under an old oak tree.
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He resembled a great old oak , now dying, ancient limbs sagging under their own weight, the sap no longer rising.
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The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass.
red
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But the single factor sacred to everything is the use of live red oak as the heat source.
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A basswood, a red oak .
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Local restaurants had also begun serving foods cooked over red oak .
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See that red oak over there?
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In the last five years the hickory and the red oak are going away really quick.
solid
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She pressed her back against the door, grateful for the support of its solid carved oak .
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His cell was eight by fifteen with a solid oak door supported by steel bands.
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The village will be made of solid oak and then exported, flat-pack style, to Tokyo.
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It is solid oak , not veneer.
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She peered through the security peephole in the solid Edwardian oak door.
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Made from solid oak with veneered interiors, the wood has been limed to enhance the grain.
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But the point is that it's solid oak .
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The solid oak staff caught Guy a brutal blow on his wounded arm.
■ NOUN
barrel
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Maturation: fine red wines may be matured in oak barrels for one to two years.
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They aged their tequila in oak barrels for longer periods.
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This particular whisky is aged in oak barrels used previously for sherry.
beam
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The Manor kitchen has an enormous Tudor fireplace with the original oak beam .
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The bar is warm and cosy, with an open fire and oak beams .
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His silks, his plaited hair, his very foreign-ness seemed out of place amongst the low oak beams and sturdy yeoman furniture.
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The prettiest bedroom has oak beams and original wide floor boards.
cask
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Clarets are aged in stainless steel vats or oak casks , and are bottled only when they are considered ready for sale.
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Many of these molecules seeped into the initially crystal-clear whisky from the oak casks in which the liquor was aged.
chair
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A heavy oak chair stood by the window.
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Sonny Stoner squirmed in the hard oak chair .
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There, on the great high-backed oak chair , sat the same enormous rat.
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The Judge was sitting in a great, high-backed oak chair , on the right-hand side of a great stone fireplace.
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He found a huge, high-backed oak chair and pulled it up beside the fire.
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He carried him over to the great oak chair and stood him on it.
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Bonanza sat in a huge oak chair .
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As he looked, the great rat dropped from the rope on to the old oak chair .
chest
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She stared, teeth chattering, at white-painted walls, a heavy oak chest , the ornate brass-work of the bed.
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Carefully she felt her way past an oak chest .
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Helen stared at the oak chest and wondered what was in it.
door
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They were both panting slightly by the time they reached the heavy oak door on the third floor.
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His cell was eight by fifteen with a solid oak door supported by steel bands.
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Heavy oak doors open into an impenetrable warren of bleak rooms painted in regulation Ministry of Works cream.
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Ahead of me was a glass-panelled oak door which led out to the sun terrace.
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She peered through the security peephole in the solid Edwardian oak door .
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And there he stayed as porter Mike Creamer slammed shut its heavy oak door .
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The passage was quiet, unlit, the oak door to the Little Vestry on the left tightly closed.
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The oak door opened easily, and swung back to reveal a wide hall.
leave
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The smell of last year's oak leaves filled the air.
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The leaves are sometimes nearly entire, but their sides are usually incised and resemble oak leaves.
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In summer, oak leaves shivered on its body.
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Mounds containing members of the Soviet armed forces were marked with engraved oak leaves and stars.
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They afford a level bed, free of rocks, upholstered with oak leaves , curtained by shrubs.
panelling
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She waited in a hall rich in oak panelling .
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I was ushered into a high-ceilinged room dark with oak panelling .
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I said my vows a bit too loud and they seemed to echo round the light oak panelling of the room.
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The house has fine oak panelling .
poison
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There were casualties: One soldier burned out his chain saw; another got poison oak .
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Fire officials said bee stings and poison oak were the most serious problems.
table
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A long, carved oak table dominated the room, heavy chairs to match.
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Sonny scraped his fingernail along the soft grime on the lip of the oak table .
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It was a big room with a polished oak table and a door that opened to the garden.
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Two fine oak tables were missing, and the space was for me to fill.
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The four of us then took our places around a seventeenth-century oak table that could comfortably have seated twenty.
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The Reichsführer sat at an oak table working his way through a mound of papers.
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When I did return, I locked myself in and heaved the great oak table against the door and fastened the windows.
tree
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On the corner was a huge oak tree .
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A willow oak tree grows at the edge of this patio.
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And tied around the oak tree was the largest yellow ribbon I'd yet seen.
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The mountains all were calling and the oak trees answering, Oh, woe, woe for Adonis.
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He'd start with the gnarled old oak tree in the graveyard.
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Women and children were lined up in a half-circle facing an old, perfectly formed oak tree .
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Earlier that morning I had awoken lying on the grass underneath an oak tree in Regent's Park.
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Most of the island is covered by a maritime forest of live oak trees with a dense understory of palmettos.
wood
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Volunteers in Knapdale, in south Argyll, have helped to remove sitka spruce and invasive rhododendrons from oak woods .
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Pied-fly numbers have increased dramatically since nest box provision has become widespread practice in the sessile oak woods they prefer.
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Wood warblers are another typical bird of sessile oak woods.
■ VERB
age
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It was like trying to age an oak .
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They aged their tequila in oak barrels for longer periods.
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This wine is made from 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and is aged in small oak casks.
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They are also aging in new oak barrels, giving their tequila a surprising aroma and taste of bourbon.
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It is aged in oak , which gives a bit of a boost to the classic scent of petrol and honey.
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This particular whisky is aged in oak barrels used previously for sherry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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oak floors
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above them, the branches of the oak tree were beginning to creak and sway.
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Limewood is contrasted with oak , and the chapter finishes: The properties of the material made limewood sculpture a special medium.
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May acorns fall from an oak .
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The door was of oak , buckled with age and studded with rusting iron bolts and bands of steel.
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The soldiers pointed him towards the oak .
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There were many paths leading west but they must take the one which was marked by a riven oak .
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This particular whisky is aged in oak barrels used previously for sherry.
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We must not squash that wisdom, strength and caring as we help them grow from saplings to oak trees.