noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a great talker/reader/admirer etc
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Anthony’s a great talker – sometimes you just can’t get a word in.
lay reader
mind reader
omnivorous reader
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an omnivorous reader
palm reader
voracious reader
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a voracious reader
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
avid
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Facing up to it I am an avid Punch reader , but enough is enough.
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Many become avid readers , work-out maniacs or bingo fanatics during the six months away from home.
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I am an avid reader of your magazine and eagerly look forward to each month's issue.
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But now she was an avid reader who liked nothing better than to haunt old bookstores.
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I have long been a avid reader of books about islands.
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Reagan was an avid reader of the conservative monthly Kuman Events, and frequently quoted from it at length.
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The library was a room which the Empress used constantly, for she was all her life an avid reader .
general
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Entries are detailed, accurate and solid, written in clear, nontechnical language for the general reader .
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However, the reality is very different, and for the general reader , slightly disappointing.
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Many scores of pages are devoted to these topics and the general reader will need to keep a bookmark in the footnotes.
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Books submitted will be assessed both for their scholarship and for their accessibility to the general reader .
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This is written for students of linguistics but also offers a good introduction for the general reader .
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Much for the specialist and general reader to enjoy.
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This is a highly technical volume, not recommended to the general reader .
lay
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The organisation is highly democratic, for lay readers are elected and then must consult their members in decision-making.
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Unfortunately for the lay reader , battalions had a strange nomenclature.
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His most striking proposition to the lay reader is that human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
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Ironically, it may, indeed, frighten the lay reader away altogether.
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In 1898 he became a diocesan lay reader .
young
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It is not a language the young reader - or indeed any reader - is familiar with.
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Seven-and eight-year-old children are still very young as readers .
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This egregious nonsequitur requires further clarification, if only for your myriad younger readers .
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The concern is not whether children are missing some small element or other, but that texts yield meaning to young readers .
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It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.
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And this is exactly what young readers should be doing.
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We assume what the young reader is perceiving.
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On the way: a People for young readers .
■ VERB
ask
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We asked readers who rush from work to the kitchen to share their quick, family-friendly recipes and time-saving techniques.
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Last week, I asked readers to nominate which character they would vote out of the soaps.
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Seitz asks readers if they could imagine Ben Hogan or Arnold Palmer ever going to a sports psychologist.
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He might as well ask the reader to believe in those supremely credible terrorized musicians scraping and blowing through the small hours.
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I have never before asked readers of New Scientist to take political action.
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For this reason we are asking our readers to tell us about their experiences in the jobs race.
give
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We have £200 worth of Haar Sana goodies to give away to readers !
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Mr Strine also gives readers excuses for his losses, such as injuries to key players or even the weather.
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However it is hoped that this has given the reader an appreciation of some of the issues involved.
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Repetitive, patterned texts give emergent readers extra support while they are reading.
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It insists that all research is totally impartial to give readers objective facts about products and services.
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The language within the marks also provides a nice change from the narrative voice and gives your readers an interesting third-person perspective.
help
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They can help the reader to develop the appreciation and enjoyment of pictorial material by offering a range of rich visual experiences.
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Second, descriptions help your readers take in your message more completely.
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They will not help the reader to grow brighter flowers or bigger cabbages.
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The right balance of detail should help the reader quickly grasp the nature of the problem and your approach to it.
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Hopefully this will help readers decide where to play.
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This helps young readers want to read; it helps them grow into the kind of readers who carry books everywhere.
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Finally the extensive index and reference citation helps the reader to find relevant literature.
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It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.
invite
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At various points the book invites the reader to undertake activities and then to discuss the issues with a group.
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A series of close-up drawings of parts of animals, along with written clues, invite readers to guess the animal.
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Last autumn, we invited readers to contribute essays on how they believed information technology would change life in Britain.
leave
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We leave the reader to think about this until we reach Section 1.11.
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We leave it to the reader to appreciate what this will mean in due course, as work on oneself progresses.
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Yet they leave the reader hungry.
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But in volunteering answers to these questions she leaves the reader hungry.
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The task of integration is left to the reader .
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Nor does Mr Spence draw the historical lessons the book permits, leaving them for the reader .
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A qualified audit report, as opposed to an unqualified report, should leave the reader in no doubt as to its meaning and implications.
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We leave to the reader the explanation as to why each of the asserted equalities holds.
offer
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That's what I call offering the reader a choice of endings; but you may find me quite unreasonably literal-minded.
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The Category Romance offers consistency; the readers basically know what they are going to get before they open the book.
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HarperCollins has linked up with Glemby Hair Salons to offer five lucky readers a free top-to-toe treatment.
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Diet books can work similarly, by offering readers inspiration and a new strategy toward weight loss or better health.
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The Fresh Food Co is offering Prima readers 10 per cent off purchases over £25.
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As a monthly, the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores, nor preview the week's to matches.
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Which is why we're offering all our readers a chance to subscribe to New Scientist.
provide
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This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technical options are discussed.
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This provides the reader or reviewer ample opportunity to write notes in regard to your material.
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Enough information is given to provide the reader with a grasp of the essentials of each area.
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It will continue to provide pleasure to readers for centuries and centuries into the future, Charles Dickens was a genius.
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However, they do provide the reader with some indication of the growth and size of the overall market.
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This brief summary of syndicated euro-credit lending will provide the reader with some idea of the complexity of such deals.
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A number of artists have indeed caused some confusion among those who have set expectations by providing picture-books for older readers .
read
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That is, the reader reads what is stated, and reads what is implied.
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Although many readers discuss their reading habits and wants with the library staff, an even larger number do not.
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I would guess that most of her readers have not read 29.
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But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer.
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Flesheating monsters and severed body parts dance through the pages as though daring the reader to read on.
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Few of her readers would have read the books and in wartime would be unlikely to obtain them.
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Her good readers are voracious and read their weight in books every week, while the slow readers lag behind.
remind
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It is interesting to see a professional historian reminding the reader explicitly of the relevance of his facts, analysis and discussion.
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In 25-page white papers, place a summary at the end to remind your reader of key points.
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Perhaps it is as well to remind the reader here of the nature of the epiphysis.
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Genesis 36 reminds its readers that Esau was the ancestor of the Edomites.
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The conclusion should remind the reader of what you have accomplished.
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To remind the reader of the nature of these two choices they are repeated below.
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The purpose of the conclusion is to remind the reader of what you have accomplished during the essay.
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In a critical article written several years ago, Townsend concluded by reminding his readers what Tawney had written in 1913.
tell
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There is a pamphlet which tells the reader how to see Aarau in 45 minutes.
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It must tell the readers enough about your background to ensure that they read your resume.
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When you make an assertion, what you are doing is telling your reader something you think is true.
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Perhaps you could tell our readers a little about your early life?
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Only Diana's deep sense of patriotic duty made her agree to the arrangement, it told its readers .
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It tells readers to circulate the letter widely.
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I hope McCarthy will discover them, and tell your readers about them and their students.They make a better and inspiring story.
write
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But it is the poetic strength and simplicity of the writing that seduces the reader .
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Sad, but true: in business writing , anyway, readers care more about themselves than about you.
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From tea maker to charity supporter Dear Editor I am writing to make readers aware of the registered charity.
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A series of close-up drawings of parts of animals, along with written clues, invite readers to guess the animal.
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I have written several series of readers , now only obtainable in libraries.
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It is a serious systematic account written for the general reader , professional without being technical.
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So here, in effect, is a From Rock To Jazz column written by its readers !
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You can not do this without projecting the effect of what you write upon an imagined reader .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All Ms Atwood's readers will be delighted with her latest book.
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At this point in the novel, the reader still does not know the hero's true identity.
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Her books appeal especially to women readers.
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The average reader of science-fiction is young and male.
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The magazine needs to attract more young readers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Many readers will also be familiar with demonstrations of production of electric power by tapping the energy of winds and tides.
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Obviously, what the poet communicates to the reader in this poem is a complex reflection of her current mental state.
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Scientists are still not certain about this in spite of what the reader might believe.
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Seitz asks readers if they could imagine Ben Hogan or Arnold Palmer ever going to a sports psychologist.
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Share your thoughts with other readers by writing to Anne at Machine Knitting Monthly.
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We leave it to the reader to appreciate what this will mean in due course, as work on oneself progresses.