I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baking powder
chilli powder
curry powder (= a mixture of spices for making curry )
curry powder
face powder
milk powder
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hot water mixed with milk powder
powder blue
powder puff
powder room
powdered milk ( also dry milk American English )
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Powdered milk is useful for camping trips.
powdered sugar
soap powder
talcum powder
tooth powder
washing powder
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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We continued our work until the fingerprint man arrived to dust that dreadful black powder everywhere.
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The shelf had been literally blasted out of the mountain with black powder .
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I have known it to be successfully treated with black sulphur powder mixed with water but prevention is better than cure.
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Darken the eyebrows with dark brown or black powder - pencil gives a very harsh look.
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They woke with raging hangovers to a wrecked room and the smell of black powder and vomit.
dry
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It is sold dry , in powder form, which is generally stronger than the more convenient ready-mixed varieties.
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Add salt and nonfat dry milk powder , whisking rapidly until milk granules are dissolved into a smooth sauce.
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Simply to add water to a dry powder was not enough to satisfy this ritual urge.
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Black spots will appear on silver if it comes into contact with dry dishwasher powder .
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This was available in the forms of either a treacly liquid or a dry powder .
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When I was in a safe place, I loaded my pistols, this time with dry powder .
fine
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You can say: the sea was like blue glass, the sand like fine powder , and Bob's your uncle.
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Beneath my toes, the sand was as fine as talcum powder and the color of vanilla.
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The basic approach is to apply a slurry of fine alumina powder to a model of the tooth stub.
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There was a layer of fine dust: Your feet sank into 3 inches of fine powder , and it was everywhere.
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This ultra fine matt powder will enhance your natural colouring.
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Scuffling feet kick up a fine powder that covers the children and everything else.
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A cellulose-based paste is being applied to the gypsum deposits followed by a micro-sanding with fine alumina powder .
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As she exits, she lets drop a fine powder .
loose
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Warm Geranium lipstick by Kanebo and a loose matt powder completed the look.
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Use a foundation that closely matches your skintone, topped with transparent loose powder to set, then add your pinks.
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The loose graphite powder can be rubbed into paper surfaces to give a silvery-grey tone.
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For a natural glow to your skin mix a subtle shade of blusher with loose powder .
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Tip a little loose powder into the palm of your hand and pat the powder puff into it.
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Powder the rest of the face. Loose translucent powder is best, as it's much finer than pressed powder.
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Disguise a blemish with a touch of medicated cover-stick, then set with loose face powder .
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Apply plenty of loose face powder if you want a make-up that lasts the day.
white
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Once more he picked up the paper with its load of white powder .
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I poured some liquid into a peanut butter jar and dumped some white powder in itit bubbled.
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He kicked one, and it disintegrated into a white powder .
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Except for the white powder of light from the Nurses' Station out in the hall, the dorm is dark.
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The white dusting powder over the fleshing was sometimes cornflour.
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Inside were three narrow bags full of a white powder .
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He bounded over to the chest containing the strange white powder .
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And a small plastic bag full of white powder .
■ NOUN
baking
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Mix equal parts of baking powder and water and pat on the sunburnt areas.
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Stir the flour, suet, cinnamon and baking powder together then mix in the liquid to bind.
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Fold in flour and baking powder then add enough milk for mixture to have a soft dropping consistency.
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Combine oats, milk powder and baking powder together.
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The alkaline baking powder causes the cocaine to separate and, since the base is insoluble, it sinks to the bottom.
chili
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Add chili powder , cumin, and cayenne and black peppers, and stir over low heat for 3 minutes.
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Combine cumin, chili powder , cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in large bowl.
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Stir in undrained diced tomatoes, rice, chili powder and Tabasco sauce.
cocoa
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This pudding also includes a little cocoa powder for good measure.
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Put the cocoa powder coffee and water into a small pan.
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Put the syrup, cocoa powder and brandy in a pan.
curry
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Mix together the dressing and curry powder and add to the Quorn.
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Blend curry powder and salt into 1 cups water and add to skillet along with raisins.
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Masala is a generic word meaning mixed spices, and thus the most basic curry powder is a masala of a sort.
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Lightly whisk the remaining cream with the curry powder and egg yolks. 7.
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If you have used curry powder , such flavours are already in the dish.
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Add the curry powder and cook for a further 1-2 minutes.
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Stir in the curry powder , almonds, sultanas, parsley, lemon juice, chutney and seasoning. 4.
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Mix the flour and curry powder together.
face
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A special carmine stick replaced rouge on the cheeks followed by a dusting of face powder .
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The usual smell of long-seated bottoms, of sour shoes, of tobacco muck, of stogies, cologne, face powder .
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Once a year she gets her hair permed and once a year she buys face powder .
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This corresponds to the fineness of face powder or an average particle size of about $ 0 microns.
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It had that mixed smell of face powder , lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman's purse.
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Disguise a blemish with a touch of medicated cover-stick, then set with loose face powder .
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Corn Silk, a unique super-absorbent superfine face powder that ends oily shine.
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She put the books down on the vanity table and with trembling fingers opened her handbag to find her face powder .
keg
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Ireland - home, as Joseph called it - had been a powder keg since the Easter Rising three years ago.
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The place was a powder keg .
milk
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Mix the flour and milk powder together with a little water to make a thin paste.
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Add salt and nonfat dry milk powder , whisking rapidly until milk granules are dissolved into a smooth sauce.
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Breakfast is tea and muesli, the muesli made with hot water and milk powder .
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But the milk powder was ruined, and so, too, were many of the packets of dried soup and flavourings.
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Pritchitt's distribution manager Robert Hamilton sees off the consignment of milk powder bound for Bosnia.
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The blaze gutted a spray drying area of the factory used for processing skimmed milk powder .
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Combine oats, milk powder and baking powder together.
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Mix the remaining milk with the cornflour and skimmed milk powder .
mustard
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Stir in the seasoning, mustard powder and eggs. 8 Spoon the sauce over the moussaka and sprinkle over the cheese.
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Mix the fromage frais with the mustard powder and dill and serve with the salmon.
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To gain the maximum flavour, always mix mustard powder to a paste before adding it to recipes.
puff
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Always use a clean powder puff .
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His second serve is no longer a powder puff .
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Tip a little loose powder into the palm of your hand and pat the powder puff into it.
room
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When those silly women went to the downstairs powder room , I saw them go.
snow
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At other points I broke through the top surface into icy, powder snow below.
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And David Goldsmith has also sorted out the best buys in powder snow equipment, so you are prepared for the exhilaration.
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He was immediately plucked off and we plunged downwards, drowning in a tidal wave of powder snow .
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We went back to the top and made fresh tracks towards Chamonix through windswept powder snow on the Glacier du Geant.
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Well, there's a lot of powder snow in Vail, Colorado.
soap
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Kausmann is not a fetishist and is much more interested in the couple's relationship than in the efficiency of soap powder .
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The few shoppers who are searching for soap powder feel rather awkward.
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She's shown us the label so we can recognize the packaged news story like it was a familiar soap powder .
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To make soap powder , a liquid is blown through a nozzle.
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Some people find a change of soap powder can help, especially a move away from a biological powder.
talcum
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If you don't want to splash out on Dry Shampoo, ordinary talcum powder will do the same trick.
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Annie felt her hand enclosed in a warm cocoon of talcum powder and smooth baby skin.
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The cocaine looked like talcum powder , luminescent in the darkness.
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Not a speck of talcum powder , not a smear of soap, on any surface.
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Everything smells of talcum powder from a tin that has leaked.
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He smelled of aftershave and talcum powder .
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Like a baby who's been rolled in warm lotions and talcum powder .
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Do not use aerosols or talcum powder .
■ VERB
dust
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We continued our work until the fingerprint man arrived to dust that dreadful black powder everywhere.
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The process takes a previously printed image which before the ink is dry is dusted with a resinous powder .
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What looked like flour-sacks were piled in one section of it, and the floor was dusted with yellowish powder .
grind
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But I can tell you that it contains plants' leaves and roots ground into powder .
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The seeds are often ground and the resulting powder is a basic ingredient of curry spice mix.
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In the brewery the malt is ground into a coarse powder called grist.
mix
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It had that mixed smell of face powder , lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman's purse.
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We mixed the henna powder with tea, as directed.
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To gain the maximum flavour, always mix mustard powder to a paste before adding it to recipes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drinking horn/powder horn etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I carved my first wide turn through virgin powder , experiencing a transcendence of Buddhist proportions.
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In its wake, savoring powder , perfume, lotion and dew from the love-making gone before.
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John Denver was adept at metal work and could earn £2: 7s.: 6d. for making powder cans.
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Next, a long tapering round metal pricker was inserted so that its point penetrated a short distance into the powder .
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Scuffling feet kick up a fine powder that covers the children and everything else.
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She spooned coffee powder into it and filled it up with water from the kettle.
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That report showed there were more suspects arrested in 1999 on charges involving marijuana than for powder or crack cocaine.
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These days, nobody cared what high-grade powder he put up his nose, whom he spent the night with.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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Her Committee would teach him a lesson, she promised herself venomously, as she powdered her face .
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Earlier she had powdered her face so that it now looked smooth.
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She sat up, and, taking out her compact, powdered her face lightly and combed her hair.
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Montreal was powdering its face and putting on lipstick while infrastructure was going to pot.
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She'd powdered her face and put on a dab of lipstick.
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I smoothed a little more powder on my face .
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The appalling slowness with which she arranged her hair and powdered her face drove her small nephew almost frantic.
nose
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After the main course Vanessa disappeared to powder her nose .
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I also notice the fresh lipstick and powdered nose and realize my sister had done as she pleased.
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One way or another, I had drunk quite a bit this evening, but I didn't need to powder my nose .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The makeup man rushed forward to powder Zack's face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At each place was a bowl made from a can that had one contained powdered milk.
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Examples are fine sand, powdered clay and ash.
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Others reeked of herbs or were powdered with flour.
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She is eating a donut, and the powdered sugar makes more spots on her dress.
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She sat up, and, taking out her compact, powdered her face lightly and combed her hair.
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Sprinkle a little powdered sugar on top.