I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/plane/bus etc journey
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the six-hour train journey to London
a car/train/plane etc crash
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He was badly hurt in a car crash.
a commuter train/plane (= a train or plane that people use to travel to work in a city )
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Several commuter trains were delayed because of the bad weather.
a passenger plane/jet
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It was recently converted from a passenger plane to cargo use.
a plane accident/an airplane accident ( also a flying accident )
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Holly died in a plane accident.
a spy satellite/plane (= used for spying )
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The Americans have denied using spy satellites to spy on China.
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The photographs were taken by spy planes.
aircraft/plane wreckage
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The major task is now to remove the aircraft wreckage from the accident site.
an airline/plane/air ticket
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You can pick up your airline tickets at the check-in desk.
car/train/plane wreck
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My father died in a car wreck.
crash a car/bus/plane etc
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He was drunk when he crashed the car.
passengers board a plane/train formal (= get on it )
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The first three cars were reserved for passengers boarding in Queens.
passengers get on/off a bus/plane etc
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The bus stopped and half the passengers got off.
plane geometry
plane tree
ski plane
transport plane
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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He strove to think on a different plane of reason and insight.
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It's different plane of existence, where normal space and time are somehow by passed.
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The year was 1985, and Apple was on a different plane of existence than Microsoft.
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The afternoon progressed, but was moved now on to a different plane , lit by the glow of expectation.
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Black-jacketed on the podium, he was on a different plane from the student body, silent and scribbling at his feet.
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It just shows a different plane .
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First, they arrived at Edinburgh airport in different planes .
high
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McGeechan puts that down to identifying the likely lads early and raising their sights to higher planes .
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Joe also moved to a higher social plane .
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Love lives on a higher plane .
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The Beta stands on a much higher plane of civilization and is more developed.
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If anything, Letterman thinks, these women have a compulsion to reach a higher plane of conversation that strains credulity.
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But it needs either deep inside knowledge, or real writing skills to take it to a higher plane .
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The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality.
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The game generally, was on a much higher plane of skill and fitness and thought.
military
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The operation would use 11 military cargo planes and would eventually cost over US$200,000,000.
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Joe wired his acceptance and made plans to fly up with James Forrestal on a military plane .
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A fully loaded civilian plane crashes in mid-air with an armed military plane over Catterick Garrison.
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The military planes were headed for Andrews, having completed a training exercise off the coast.
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As many as 44 military planes and helicopters had been badly damaged, he acknowledged.
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Officials are investigating Tripoli residents' reports that the airliner hit a military plane .
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The simulated disaster in exercise Gryphon's Lift was a midair collision between military and civilian planes over Catterick Garrison.
private
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The one with the private plane .
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At 8: 15 p. m., the three boarded a private plane for Palo Alto.
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He drove through the night to Wick intending to cross the Pentland Firth in a small private plane .
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And the planes themselves seemed small, like light private planes.
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I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler's private planes .
small
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He does not like small planes .
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He heard the high buzz of a small plane .
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The pilot warned there would be only room for one moose on the small plane .
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She does recall her apprehension about flying in a small plane , even with two experienced pilots.
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He drove through the night to Wick intending to cross the Pentland Firth in a small private plane .
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Early in the month, Steve Wozniak crashed his small plane on a runway in Berkeley.
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A small plane , flying in under radar.
■ NOUN
cargo
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The operation would use 11 military cargo planes and would eventually cost over US$200,000,000.
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They suggest an advanced design of the C.141 Starlifter cargo plane .
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These cargo planes are the modern equivalents of the tramp steamer.
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That cargo plane of yours has a range of three thousand, six hundred sea miles.
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The paratroops, known as Task Force Red, dropped in two waves from C-141 cargo planes .
crash
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Hammarskjold died in a plane crash , and the former diplomat has discovered that the plane was shot at before it crashed.
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It began with the death of Otis Redding in a plane crash on December 10, 1967.
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At the time of the plane crash , I was a student at college.
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Taylor Powell, a Hollywood heartthrob legendary for his good looks, decides to become anonymous after surviving a plane crash .
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From your first message we gathered you saw the plane crash into the sea but couldn't identify it.
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It takes a tragedy like the ValuJet plane crash in the Everglades to point out the error of our ways.
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In what year did he die in a plane crash ? 3. 3.
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Is, for instance, dying in a plane crash worse than succumbing to cancer?
fighter
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Until recently F-Shed was where Jaguar fighter planes were serviced.
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That incident occurred about 10 to 15 miles offshore, as the four fighter planes were returning from a training mission.
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It was a photograph of a fighter plane with the pilot standing beside it.
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The Navy is spending $ 83 billion on its F-18 E / F fighter plane program.
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Military sources say 12 of the Internet-ready devices would be able to control missiles or unmanned fighter planes .
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There are no gracefully lethal curves on this fighter plane .
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Antiaircraft fire had become greatly intensified, but in my continued observations I saw no enemy fighter planes .
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The plan seems to be to use airlift escorted by fighter planes .
spy
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At one point U.S. military and intelligence services had 17 spy planes over Escobar's home city of Medellin.
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The main culprit is the Pioneer, a smaller, less advanced spy plane that the Hunter was supposed to replace.
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So did our successful interception of your spy plane .
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They were here to defend the heavens against high-altitude spy planes .
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It is a little more complicated to copy a spy plane , but George Bush has a similar problem right now.
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I heard over the voice of america that they released Powers the U2 spy plane fellow.
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These bats are like miniature spy planes , bristling with sophisticated instrumentation.
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But everyone gave the spy plane , nicknamed the Dragon Drone, high marks for simplicity and usefulness.
transport
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Other aircrew who died in the crash were ... In Lyneham, the transport planes were flying again today.
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The Marine Corps has 24 medium lift helicopters and 12 transport planes based at the station.
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It was designed to be a troop transport plane .
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There they would be loaded board three transport planes and flown to Tabriz.
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The camels had already seen two Junkers Tri-Motor transport planes come in, so they were not impressed by a Heinkel 111.
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An occasional transport plane came in to Berna airfield at Benghazi.
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They're taking in flour, grain and oil on Hercules transport planes .
tree
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It was a beautiful cloudless morning and the canopies of the plane trees were lush and transparently golden with sunlight.
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It faces out toward Dodge Hall, across gracious grounds of hedged walks and great plane trees .
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She walked along to the little café, where at least the umbrellas and the plane trees gave some shade.
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The plane tree above seemed dark and sinister.
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The harbour quay, shaded by plane trees and filled with tables, is the village social centre.
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There, in the secret shade of the plane tree .
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Sun shone, warm breezes blew, and the plane trees behind the Cages grew greener and more leafy with each hour.
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Or the nannies and the nursemaids who lately pushed their prams up and down, and gossiped under the plane trees ?
wave
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Twistor techniques may also be developed to generate colliding plane wave solutions.
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This is an interesting theorem which seems to prove the existence of singularities for a large class of colliding plane waves .
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Most of these methods can be applied also to the colliding plane wave situation.
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This has plane wave solutions which are transverse waves travelling with velocity c, properties that electromagnetic waves also possess.
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All three types of singularity are found in colliding plane wave solutions.
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In terms of colliding plane waves , these solutions all involve approaching waves with initial impulsive components.
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The second Yurtsever and the Feinstein-Ibañez solutions For colliding plane wave solutions, we are considering space-times with two space-like Killing vectors.
■ VERB
board
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Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children.
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This Monday, a week after the Dow took a dive, Reid boards the plane for Maui.
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At the very least you may want to skip that last cigarette before you board the plane .
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She did, though, and we boarded the plane together.
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Their answers are carefully considered before they are allowed to board their plane .
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She was booked on to a flight arriving in London at midday but failed to board the plane .
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At 8: 15 p. m., the three boarded a private plane for Palo Alto.
build
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I want to build a plane to escape but I can't find the books I need.
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The Air Force ultimately decided not to build such a plane .
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The Philadelphia consultants said factories that built war planes could just as easily produce toy planes.
buy
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In the afternoon he ran through light rain to buy a plane ticket home.
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As well as eight 747-400s, the carrier bought 24 planes from Airbus.
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All because she didn't have the money to buy a plane ticket or even a bus ticket.
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It will buy the planes between next year and 2001.
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His fundamental mistake was not only to buy all his planes , but to buy them only on borrowed money.
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Other airlines are also out there buying planes .
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You can buy a jet plane and lease it to the airlines.
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She bought a one-way plane ticket to terra incognita: the United States.
catch
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The only chance was to catch the overnight plane .
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He caught a plane last night.
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Arriving late to find all moving stairways were out of order a panicky half mile sprint was needed to catch our plane .
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She caught the first plane back to New York.
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When I heard she was with you, I caught the next plane to Nice.
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Had they seen Saturday's encounter, the Kiwis might have been tempted to catch a plane home.
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I have a guest house where you can stay and I will make sure you catch your planes .
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By the time she was discovered, it would be too late for her to catch the plane .
die
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Hammarskjold died in a plane crash, and the former diplomat has discovered that the plane was shot at before it crashed.
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Most think she crashed somewhere near Howland and died when her plane sank.
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The 55-year-old family man who ran a butcher's shop in Bridge Street, died in the Pulsar plane he had built.
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Barley died in a plane crash in Orlando last summer.
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In what year did he die in a plane crash? 3. 3.
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Is, for instance, dying in a plane crash worse than succumbing to cancer?
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When he died in the plane crash I cried all day.
down
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Underwater wrecks are strewn along the coast and downed planes and tanks emerge from the jungle overgrowth.
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Airlines have separate insurance for the passengers and for the downed plane .
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S.-fired missile downed the plane .
fly
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I have flown my plane with cadged army fuel six hundred miles.
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For every 100, 000 hours flown , seven planes were crashing-many because of faulty maintenance.
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The wives might not have quite as glamorous a job as their husbands flying the planes .
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She does recall her apprehension about flying in a small plane , even with two experienced pilots.
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And yet again, Charles insisted on flying on the same plane as his sons William and Harry.
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He can fly a plane backwards.
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No pilot, no matter how good, can fly the plane without electronic help.
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Again he flew the plane with his knees and again he nailed his wolf with one shot.
land
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This system could interpret the nerve signals precisely enough to pick up the fine arm movement needed to land a plane safely.
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Yet the mob somehow aborts the landing and pulls the plane up sensibly.
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The trials also involved asking a pilot to land a damaged plane using the flight simulator.
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The pilot was able to land the plane , and no one was hurt.
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The anonymous pilot displayed skill and nerve to land the crippled plane at screeching high speed at the city's National Airport.
shoot
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That day also, Bert Hall shot down a plane and was wounded.
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The accidental shooting down of a plane carrying civilians would be a disaster for Western policy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
catch a train/plane/bus
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I should be able to catch the 12:05 train.
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Kevin catches the bus home on Mondays and Wednesdays.
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After the debate, they dined on hamburgers and talked sports at a local joint before catching a train back to Washington.
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Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie's flat.
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He caught a plane last night.
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I could catch a bus back into town.
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Maybe she had caught a train to New Rochelle.
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Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh.
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The second time I caught a bus to the coast.
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They returned to their hotel, packed their bags, and left for Penn Station to catch a train for Washington.
hop a plane/bus/train etc
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Elated, Daley and Sis hopped a plane for a vacation in the Florida Keys.
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He would just hop trains and stuff.
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Receiving assurances that there was no ethnic dimension to the role he had been offered, Hoch hopped a plane headed west.
put sb on a train/plane etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's quicker to go by plane .
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Let's try to keep the discussion on a friendly plane .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It has nothing to do with that plane you are still thinking about.
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That day also, Bert Hall shot down a plane and was wounded.
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Their vast horizontal planes of activity could then provide a substitute horizon.
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To simplify the figure, its effect is shown on a projection of the cusp on to a horizontal plane .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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The face of the rail has to be planed down until it lines up flush with both front and back legs.
■ NOUN
fighter
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All the fighter planes the Pentagon wants to build would cost up to $ 16 billion a year, he says.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Joints have to fit exactly and surfaces are planed to the millimetre or the defects are painfully audible.
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Mark then spent a week on the waterfront carefully planing down the telegraph poles to the right shape.
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Seagulls swooped and planed overhead laying raucous claim to some scrap of food in the possession of one of them.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crash
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But then the plane crash happened and now I may retire even sooner.
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Redding was just 26 when he died in a 1967 plane crash near Madison, Wis.