adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
polar bear
polar ice
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Global warming directly causes the melting of polar ice.
the polar opposite of sth ( also polar opposites ) (= used about two things, people etc that are completely opposite )
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These two viewpoints seem like polar opposites.
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Mum was the polar opposite of dear old Dad.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bear
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Parker like a polar bear , suddenly hugging him.
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The polar bears does not look cold.
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For instance, one of the facts that the Bishop finds it difficult to understand is the white colour of polar bears .
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A polar bear has stolen my sleeping bag...
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Everyone went hungry that day, because the little polar bear scoffed every pack lunch we had.
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Carl thus became the first and possibly the only man ever to successfully lasso musk ox, polar bears , and walrus.
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On the same day another polar bear was captured and removed from the Prudhoe Bay field.
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It handled the snow like a polar bear .
body
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The first meiosis has produced a polar body , and this lies trapped beneath the zona pellucida.
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The oocyte chromosomes lie within the cytoplasm roughly beneath this first polar body .
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Thus, whereas spermatocytes produce four functional haploid spermatozoa, primary oocytes eventually produce one functional haploid egg plus two polar bodies .
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But, in most species that have been looked at, the first polar body does not divide further.
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In mice, however, the first polar body may sometimes divide.
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The polar bodies will be eliminated.
desert
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Many tundra species occur in polar desert and forest as well, but only in tundra do they dominate their communities.
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It takes one to the high, isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season.
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Similarly the term polar desert covers both the area and the vegetation characteristic of it.
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In dry polar deserts ahumic soils tend to remain ahumic indefinitely.
extreme
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Nietzsche was soon to substitute a new opposition whose polar extremes were occupied by visual art and music.
ice
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Lake Vostok lies about 4000 metres beneath the polar ice .
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The use of polar ice to support such a ballistic-transportation scheme requires a substantial consumption of propellant along the way.
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Even the polar ice contains pesticide, for example.
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This astonishing discovery of polar ice on Mercury makes it clear that impacts play a major role on all the terrestrial planets.
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Adult males are nomadic, wandering all round the polar ice cap and living mainly off seals.
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With a yet slower rhythm than the polar ice , the tides of civilization ebbed and flowed across the galaxy.
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There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there.
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During local spring in the polar regions, polar ice and perpetual sunlight may both be available simultaneously!
opposite
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Eikmeyer's fundamental insight is that co-operation and non-co-operation are not simply polar opposites along a scale.
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CertainIV it should not accommodate its polar opposite .
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The polar opposite images are not by some marketing design.
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Strickland was their polar opposite -- an irresponsible teammate and anti-leader.
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In this respect he is the polar opposite of Harold Wilson, a dull speaker who taught himself to be funny.
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In fact the two strains-puritanism and pentecostalism-seem in some way to be nearly polar opposites .
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First of all, is it sensible to think of masculine/feminine as polar opposites ?
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When you bring together two polar opposites , the classless one will always drag the other one down.
sea
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The pack ice and fast ice that spread over polar seas form vast sheets many hundreds of square kilometres in area.
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That polar seas are richer than polar lands is immediately apparent at either end of the world.
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Subpolar seas of both hemispheres are richer than polar seas, with a longer but less intense season of high productivity.
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From the concentrations of birds and mammals in high latitudes has grown the myth that all polar seas are immensely productive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The crew flew a polar route to Detroit from Eastern Russia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the crews of high-altitude aircraft, especially on polar routes, can receive significant amounts of radiation over time.
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For more polar polymers, specific solvent effects become more pronounced and extrapolations have to be regarded with corresponding caution.
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However, the life-cycle savings model is the polar opposite case from pure classical savings.
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In fact polar homeotherms, whether northern or southern, show very few recognizable adaptations for polar living.
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Many polar species have clearly originated in this way by adaptations of metabolism, form and lifestyle.
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Until his polar opposite steps lightly down on to his moon-paved home ground, the sleek beast-headed man sits at peace, inviolable.