noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bird of passage
permit/promise/guarantee etc safe passage (to/for sb)
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The government offered safe passage to militants taking up their offer of peace talks.
quoted...passage
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He quoted a short passage from the Bible.
safe passage
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The government offered safe passage to militants taking up their offer of peace talks.
secret compartment/passage etc
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The drugs were found in a secret compartment in Campbell’s suitcase.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
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She felt again the fear she had known when she walked into him in the dark passage .
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Somebody came out of the room, and into the dark passage .
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Three dungeons but only two doors. Dark passages .
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A dark and empty passage mocked his melodrama.
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They are not allowed out of this dark passage , in case they fall overboard.
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We went through many dark passages until we reached a door, where she left me, taking her candle with her.
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I rushed down the dark passage to the lavatory with both hands at my face.
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Then she ran from the cloakroom, down the narrow dark passage and out into the night.
following
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Test yourself with the following passage , which contains misspelt words taken from examination scripts.
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The following passage crystallizes most of these concerns.
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The following passage summarises his views on the combined system, which he advocated in numerous speeches and articles.
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The following passages have been written by two of the platoon commanders. lieutenant S is twenty-five.
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The following passage exemplifies, for Rees, macho characteristics: Clogger moved like greased lightning.
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For example, suppose that you are presented with the following passage , used by Johnston etal.: The river was narrow.
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The following passages , taken from well-known or easily obtainable piano music, are suggested as exercises in scoring for string orchestra.
free
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When sounds are unvoiced, the vocal cords are relaxed to allow the air a completely free passage .
long
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It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east.
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But any such measure would face a long road to passage .
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She remembers her reviews and quotes them, knowing long passages by heart.
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We provide a comprehensive range of sizes to suit every yacht specification for leisure use or for the longest of passages .
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Despite the conditions the long passage was uneventful and William Lukin was refuelled and declared ready for service again by 0800.
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At an early age he developed a remarkable memory and could recite long passages from the Scriptures by heart.
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This was quite a long passage for us, but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg.
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In the field opposite are fissures in the underlying limestone, entrances to long subterranean passages .
narrow
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At the rear of the shop were two rooms, set alongside a narrow passage leading to a back door.
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Crisscrossing Chinatown, these narrow passages , some as old as the city itself, serve as front yard and back yard.
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But now a narrow passage leading to the single barred window had been constructed down the middle of the room.
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He followed her into the narrow passage .
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In the narrow passage that led through to the garden, they came upon Rafiq.
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This outline is fairly abstract, consisting of oval shapes connected by narrow passages .
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She was in a narrow passage that crookedly connected two busy streets.
rough
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To get there would be a rough passage , and the return tortuous.
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It was like coming to harbour after a rough passage - with an armful of comfort to hand.
safe
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On Jan. 31, the government promised safe passage to Sikh militants taking up the Prime Minister's offer of peace talks.
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There was risk involved in going, and no guarantee of safe passage .
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The water of the red sea divided so as to ensure safe passage for the Israelite.
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Instead, Fujimori has offered to provide safe passage out of the country for rebels if they liberate all the captives.
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We start in ten days and I firmly rely on the goodness of Providence to grant me a safe and prosperous passage .
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It confined transoceanic vessels to a few narrow shipping lanes that promised safe passage .
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They call themselves Rektum, and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage .
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The gunmen released most hostages and headed for Chechnya with the rest after receiving a promise of safe passage .
secret
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He'd like to know the location of the secret passages in the kitchen and bedrooms.
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It is like a secret passage , bringing Deptford workers north of the river, taking them home again at night.
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He built secret passages underground, and his secret house on the lake.
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I don't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use.
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It is as though there were a secret passage underneath the knife-edge.
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But that secret passage contains a one-way valve: there is an asymmetry.
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He took me through many secret doors and passages , down, down under the Opera House.
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And I was sure there was a secret passage because the walls were so old and thick.
short
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In the following chapter, we shall use relatively short passages for exemplifying the analysis of prose style.
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The Barton amendment fell 37 votes short of passage last year when it was first introduced in the House.
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Concepts in Use Basic vocabulary, basic structures, short passages , and straight forward messages.
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They led him, left hand aloft, through into the house, down a short passage and then some cellar steps.
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It was one of those you entered by means of a short underground passage .
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In reading this short passage we are likely to make an assumption: that when some one makes breakfast, it is eaten.
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Quickly they moved out of sight, flattening themselves against the corridor walls to either side of the short passage .
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We will now give a few examples of short passages scored for wood-wind and horns.
■ NOUN
migrant
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Regular winter visitor and passage migrant .
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Probably Honey Buzzards are regular passage migrants there, at least in autumn.
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Rare but possibly regular passage migrant .
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Peregrines last bred successfully in 1957, and are now only winter visitors and passage migrants .
■ VERB
allow
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There was no glass in the frame, just thin wooden slats to allow some passage of air.
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The jute was restless, parting like water to allow passage through it, then closing up at once.
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They are not allowed out of this dark passage , in case they fall overboard.
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On July 16 Renamo and the government signed a joint humanitarian declaration designed to allow unrestricted passage for food convoys.
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The girls aren't allowed passage into adulthood.
cite
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Knox J. in his judgment cited a passage from the speech of Lord Wilberforce starting at p. 1025D.
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He cited Scripture passages in support of his treatment of me.
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He then cited the passage from Story, Equity Jurisprudence and made the comment to which I have already referred.
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Clinton cited the passage in his inaugural address and the State of the Union.
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One could cite numerous other passages where both terms are employed, but none is plainer than this one.
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I need not cite the passage that contains that finding because Sir Stephen Brown P. has already cited it.
contain
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This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic, some sublime.
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Cassette contains 42 short listening passages .
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It contains passages of terrifying vocal difficulty.
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This type of device is repeated again and again in other works whose music contains similar passages .
follow
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The hymn was followed by a passage from the New Testament, another hymn from the choir and some simple prayers.
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The following passage illustrates this stylistic practice: How peaceful the phenomena of the lake!
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If a rest follows the solo passage the asterisk is unnecessary.
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The process of reproduction is still conspicuously missing from most discussions of economic affairs, as the following passage typifies.
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Julie followed , her passage unnoticed by Lester Piggot and Willie Carson.
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Suppose you were asked to use dreamt in one of the following passages and dreamed in the other.
quote
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I have quoted the passage from which the phrase comes, showing how Wells was painfully aware of our duality.
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Critics of Darwin who quote that passage with which I started do not usually run it on.
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Why did he not quote the decisive passages which they contained?
read
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I would read through a passage and get it sorted out as best I could.
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He had asked the students to read and annotate five passages at home.
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Instruction: students are told to read the passage , then do the exercises.
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He had planned to have the students read passages , discuss them in class, and write essays.
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During the midday meal the older children read edifying passages chosen by Nicholas from religious or secular history.
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At first, reading this passage I let out a gasp: I had never seen maternal ambivalence described on the page.
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In this study subjects read passages such as: The new houses had been left in an untidy state.
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Users must spend two hours reading selected passages to train the software to recognize their intonations.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
purple prose/passage
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In his maturity what he remembered of his style of speaking were purple passages and a rather caustic irony.
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Lady Thatcher will be honing her purple prose for the debate in the Lords.
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William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.
rite of passage
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A rite of passage, as it were.
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After the umpteenth rubber-stamp this infuriating rite of passage, as it were, terminates: exit.
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Boyhood pledges and rites of passage, boy pages learning skills of survival from men of iron.
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Finishing the race is the rite of passage of the distance runner.
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For many fans, metal, with its pile-driving sound and locker-room lyrics, is more than a rite of passage.
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Marriage, though not the social imperative it once was, still stands for a major rite of passage into adult life.
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One lucky trainee was spared the rite of passage.
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This idyllic feeling of romance seemed too much like a temporary state, a schoolboy rite of passage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a passage from the Bible
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In March, the district won passage of a $47 million measure to repair city streets.
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nasal passages
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The refugees risked crossing the dangerous ocean passage to Florida.
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The sun rose as the Delta Queen made steady passage up the Ohio River.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both passages begin with need and with complaint.
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Of course, when the king asked for passage , the ferryman handed him the oars.
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The passages that led to the main suite were stark and uncarpeted, the room he was led into the same.
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They sat in a dark room, the only light coming from a candle burning in the passage outside.
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This blocks up the jets and air passages in the carb leading to the engine stopping.