I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
original manuscript
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Unfortunately, parts of the original manuscript have been lost.
original sin
original/innovative (= no one has thought of it before )
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The company is looking for people who can come up with original ideas.
original/previous/new owner
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the club’s new owners
sth’s original purpose
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The building is no longer needed for its original purpose.
sth’s original size
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The lake has already shrunk to half its original size.
the original draft (= the first one )
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The hero had a different name in the original draft of the story.
the original estimate (= the one given at the beginning of a process )
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The final cost was nearly three times the original estimate.
the original/first version
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The original version was in Latin but later editions were in English.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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He learnt the lesson well, and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work.
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In a highly original twist, the game allows you to determine the moral caliber of the hero.
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A fine revival of a highly original piece of music theatre.
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Blackwell glossed reproduction in a highly original way, fusing it with claims for an active female sexuality.
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For instance, they created highly original relief panels to decorate the Sebasteion as well as other sculpture that adapted earlier models for different purposes.
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Wallis made a small but highly original contribution to the art and connoisseurship of his time.
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An older repaint over a highly original car, this interesting specification Rover 2000 would respond well to careful detailing.
most
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The most original observations in the book result from this detailed scrutiny.
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That, sir, is the most original approach I have ever heard.
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Some of the most original and beautiful designs he had seen in thirty years.
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Writing is the most original kind of intellectual labor.
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He finished up as one of Britain's greatest and most original architects.
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Mr Killow was one of the most original personalities about the church in those days.
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One class was for the most original entry; another was limited to the tots; a third to the over-8s.
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The most original part of Anderson's thesis relates to the geographical origins of nationalism.
■ NOUN
design
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But in a few places conditions remain unaltered and they suit the original design to perfection.
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The original design of the work-shops dated back to the mid-1980s.
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The original design of six arches was rejected because of spate flow volumes in the river.
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Rarely is such good humor combined with such original design in audio.
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Roy modified the original design and made every single part of the clock in his own workshop.
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It was not a retrofit, though it was more of an adaptation of a copying lathe than an original design .
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The house was seriously damaged by fire in 1879 but rebuilt largely to the original design .
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For that would show some imperfection in the original design .
form
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In order to accommodate its growing occupant, the shell must enlarge in such a way as to preserve its original form .
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Needless to say, the dish is rarely presented in its original form .
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Even after 5 days, students could still discriminate original forms of jokes and asides.
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However, they had to return her to her original form so she could marry a mouse.
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Now subtracting the original form from the last equation, we obtain.
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What followed were long brainstorming sessions that finally yielded the Foxfire magazine in its original form as a school literary magazine.
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E places it after these events, and so is here more likely to preserve the original form of the annal.
idea
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The balance of evidence seems to be swinging away from the original idea of swamp-dwelling giant dinosaurs to fully terrestrial habits.
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And it all started with a successful test-market of his original idea while he was still employed.
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Mrs Van Brandenburg also has wonderful and original ideas for redesigning customers' own jewellery.
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Presenting original ideas in notes is like planting seeds in a garden, Cooley says.
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On the other hand, the probability that we would go for a genuinely original idea may be very high indeed.
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Haven't got two original ideas to rub together between the whole lot of them.
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The original idea was that the library would be symmetrical with the entrance and stairs in the centre.
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The original idea was that the gliders should be built to make one flight only.
intention
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The original intention was that the client teams would be leaderless, but in some cases this has proved to be impractical.
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My original intention was merely to sell the cards quietly for the best possible price.
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The original intention was that they should replace the Milnes cars which were worn out.
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Whatever the original intentions , aid programs had become an end in themselves.
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The original intention was to hive off assembly operations to sub-contractors.
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The original intention behind the research was to measure the effect on the individual worker of variations in the work conditions.
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I am looking for some one - at least, that was the original intention .
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The original intention was that Cramlington would be a free-standing newtown with a full range of shopping services.
owner
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The original owners could not sustain the necessary level of investment so the company has now been sold.
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The original owner keeps the land but gives up the right to develop it.
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The original owner of the house was a professor at the University.
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Broadcast station licenses and monopoly cable franchises cost their original owners nothing except legal fees.
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The Red Cross isn't too disheartened by the lack of interest, but no doubt the original owner would not be amused.
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You are buying a proven and successful business-its original owners demonstrated that it works.
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The claim was lodged last year by the three children of the original owner .
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However, an original owner can reclaim within three years from the date of the loss or robbery.
plan
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Its original plan was to unload the problem on to the electricity generators.
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Burke urged Clinton to stay with the original plan .
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He has ruthlessly pruned his original plans for a quick dash to the top.
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Holy Trinity abided by the terms of the compromise, but the Renovation Committee ultimately decided to continue with its original plans .
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Better to abide by the original plan .
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This would be expensive and had not been allowed for in the original plans and bids.
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If no firm offer has been made within three months the farmer is free to go ahead with his original plans .
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After two years, the Gypsy Moth Commission decided to go back to a version of their original plan .
position
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The principles of justice adopted in the original position are neutral between different conceptions of the good.
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The tape should be returned to its original position in the rack.
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Soon the Federals began to fall back toward their original position on Cemetery Ridge.
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A Theory of Justice contains hardly any explicit argument for the exclusion of moral and religious beliefs from the original position .
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Others, such as the Hoar Stone at Enstone, Oxfordshire, will go back to their original position if moved.
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Even a slight push means that it falls and can not recover its original position of equilibrium.
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Eventually the scarp will retreat from the original position of faulting and it may be buried by sediment.
proposal
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For example, our original proposal was that Family Credit should be paid through the pay-packet.
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The City is concerned that the original proposals would have hindered the dissemination of information from companies to investors.
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Under his original proposal , much of the savings would have gone to the wealthy.
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The original proposal was for no guaranteed funding and payment to be in arrears.
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The original proposal featured centre loading islands, but this idea was abandoned.
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Clearly, the difference between the original proposals put forward in the White Paper and the final solution in 1977 is enormous.
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What occurred none the less fell well short of the Community's original proposals .
purpose
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They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.
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Celebration is a lost art, a spiritual practice whose original purpose is sacramental in quality.
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If the building is no longer needed for its original purpose , could it be put to a new use?
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The original purpose of the law was to help disabled people enter the workforce.
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There were no clues to its original purpose .
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Long neglected, it has now been restored by the University of Edinburgh and is once again used for its original purpose .
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What was the original purpose of the site?
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This is true; but such poems have outlived their original purposes and now survive as aesthetic entities.
sin
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Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin .
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This comes too close to something like a pedagogic version of original sin .
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Another incident followed Richard Baxter's preaching of a sermon on original sin .
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According to Elvis Costello, there are no original sins .
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Howard by his belief in original sin , guilt and the possibility of awakening man's consciousness of sin.
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I was told in the third grade that I had an overabundance of original sin .
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The original sin of mankind was the murder of the father.
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Like a piece of apple, some kid said; the chunk of apple that Adam ate and got original sin .
version
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The original version of the model is depicted in Figure 8.
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The original versions were reduced to ashes when an earlier Capitol burned in 1881.
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Even its original version he had regarded as no more that a bargaining chip.
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This program has made dramatic leaps in ease-of-use and reliability from its original version .
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The original version , also included, still sounded fresh ten years on.
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Pacino cuts them together for a truly original version of Shakespeare that could only be realized on film.
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One alternative is to order decaffeinated coffee, which certainly is an improvement on the original version .
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The arrangement to the original version is like, when the song starts, you get this protection.
work
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Letters submitted must be your own original work and must not be offered for publication elsewhere at the same time.
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Teachers and many other employees produce original works while they are employed.
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The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible.
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Reference to the original work with its full specification of assumptions is essential.
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In such an example, the photographer will own the copyright of the photograph and the artist copyright in the original work .
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That the health-care taskforce is engaged in thorough and original work on reform is not in doubt.
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As well as writing numerous original works , he has edited several anthologies of poetry and short stories.
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As soon as you start writing original work , register the copyrights in one of the ways already outlined.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a jazz musician with a completely original style
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an original screenplay
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Barnes was one of the three original board members.
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I was impressed by the highly original design of the house.
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It's not a bad movie, but there's nothing very original about it.
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My job is to think up creative and original advertising ideas
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Our original plan was to go camping, but it was pouring with rain.
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Steve comes up with a lot of original ideas.
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The house still has its original stone floors.
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The orphanage's original budget was just $60,000.
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Woolf's writing was completely original - nothing like it had ever been done before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For that would show some imperfection in the original design.
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If intervention remains, it should be reduced to the original concept of a safety net for use in extreme emergencies.
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Many authors have used estimates generated by others in their own league table; did they check the original analyses?
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Most often, he found their original trials were fair, their complaints without merit.
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The case was listed for rehearing before a committee of seven members not all of whom sat on the original committee.
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The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I wasn't sure whether the portrait was an excellent copy or the original .
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Jack is a true original .
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This is a photograph of the manuscript. The original is in the city museum.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Click the extract button, and the originals will be extracted from the compressed file and placed in the new directory.
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Stained-glass windows have been fitted in place of the grime-encrusted originals.
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That he was an individualist and an original meant little to a lad with stirrings in the groin department.
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The originals were never formally withdrawn, but have been out of stock for some time.
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Tomasson hedged a bit on the 48 bodies of the original .