I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bunch of flowers/roses/daffodils etc
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I picked a bunch of flowers from the garden.
a flower/rose garden (= a garden planted with flowers/roses )
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The cottage was surrounded by a flower garden.
climbing rose/plant
compass rose
death toll rose
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As the unrest continued, the death toll rose .
Rose d'Or, the
rose hip
rose to a...crescendo
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The shouting rose to a deafening crescendo .
rose window
Steam rose
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Steam rose from the hot tub.
turnover rose/fell
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Turnover rose 9%.
wild mushroom/garlic/rose etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
pink
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On the table in front of the sofa was a vase holding four pink roses , the blooms in various stages of uncurled perfection.
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Red and pink roses on the campus were in full bloom.
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I wore a sweet pink dress with dark pink roses patterning it.
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A bunch of bright pink roses tapped the window, like a last gesture of summer.
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Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen presided over the midnight ceremony in the council chambers, which were decorated with red and pink roses .
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An artificial pink rose had been placed on the red cover roughly in the centre of the body.
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I then added the pink and cream roses , as well as some wild and some cultivated patio roses.
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A mass of flowers covered the house, a pink climbing rose and a creamy clematis.
red
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Among the plastic rats, fluffy animals and copies of the Sun decorating the desks was at least one Labour red rose .
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I share his remarks about the red rose belonging to Lancashire.
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He imagined himself walking up to her and presenting her with a single red rose .
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So there are red roses aplenty for red Gordon.
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In the centre of that was the final touch - one deep red rose .
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We also ordered some separate red roses .
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He was waiting while his vivid red roses were wrapped in the distinctive lilac and silver paper.
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A single red rose bobbed gently on the ocean waves at Sodwana Bay yesterday.
single
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He imagined himself walking up to her and presenting her with a single red rose .
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A single red rose bobbed gently on the ocean waves at Sodwana Bay yesterday.
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His piano had a single red rose poignantly lying across the keyboard.
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Like those boys that come in for a single rose as if nobody's ever done that before.
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There was a single rose in a silver vase.
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He visualized simple dinners by the light of two candles with a single , long-stemmed rose in a glass between them.
small
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At the top a small rose window afforded some light.
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Jill Franklin wore a long white cotton dress with small roses in its pattern.
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The flowers are larkspur and hawthorn, and some alchemilla and small rose leaves were also used.
white
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She carried a bouquet of white carnations and roses .
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The ceremony was held in the Grand Ballroom, which was all done in white roses and orchids.
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A mushroom of intense white light rose , taking MacLane with it.
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Clinton laid a wreath of red and white roses before a majestic memorial at Piskaryevskoye Cemetery.
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There were red and white roses .
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The land is rented to the village by Sir Ian MacDonald for the annual rent of one white rose .
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I feel the white rose arching to the moment her petals peel and fall.
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It was decorated with thousands of black balloons, white roses , black bottles of champagne on white tablecloths.
wild
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A wild rose has no employees.
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When the wild roses finished blooming, we collected the orange-red hips, carefully picked the skin off the compressed seeds.
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In this particular case I used wild roses , plus their buds and leaves.
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In a week the displaced honeysuckle vines, the wild roses , the grapevines, the grass, would be back.
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Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak-apples, like robins' pin-cushions on the wild rose .
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There were lots of wild roses and foxgloves growing in the lane and you could smell the hawthorn.
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Weeds are rampant everywhere, dandelions, nettles, dock leaves, rose-bay willow-herb, wild roses, brambles.
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They can be simple and like wild roses , suitable for woodland gardens; or formal for town gardens.
yellow
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Another very successful collection of my pictures has been made by a lady who is very keen on yellow roses .
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On the long windowsill in her office sits an impressive bouquet of long-stemmed yellow roses .
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Michaelmas daisies, yellow tansy, roses still, even geraniums.
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The next morning Archer scoured the town in vain for more yellow roses .
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When I sent your lilies yesterday afternoon I saw some rather gorgeous yellow roses and packed them off to Madame Olenska.
■ NOUN
bush
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The term shrub rose is often used confusingly with bush rose.
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Prune bush roses and any shrub roses needing attention.
climbing
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The skeletons of climbing roses , not yet in bud, trailed in a regimented way against a wall.
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The gold-winning Country Living entry celebrated her work with a nostalgic cottage-garden full of lupins, irises and climbing roses .
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It has been replaced with trellis which is planted with variegated euonymus, five clematis, a climbing rose and evergreen honeysuckles.
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The house is softened by sprawls of climbing roses .
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There were old rose trees everywhere, and the walls were covered with climbing roses.
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A mass of flowers covered the house, a pink climbing rose and a creamy clematis.
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A small wooden door, set into the stone wall, and half hidden beneath the hanging tendrils of a climbing rose .
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She wandered for a while under the climbing roses and clematis, coiled over wooden trellises to make shady walkways.
colour
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He became conscious of her scrutiny, and when she half-turned as if to look herself, his colour rose .
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Pascoe's colour rose and he shocked her by the vehemence of his refusal.
garden
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Bursting with enthusiasm, Lady Amory laid a new rose garden on the terrace in front of the house.
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The large drawing-room is reached through a garden room, its terraces leading to a Jacobean rose garden.
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Over the fields of the university campus, and a sudden low redbrick wall, a precisely colonnaded rose garden .
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He led us through a gate and into a perfect little rose garden .
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If you like roses , you could consider planting a specialised rose garden .
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There is an extensive rose garden , separate from the Observatory, laid out in the 1930s.
shrub
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Ground cover shrub roses which flower continuously from June to October, are popular at present.
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The term shrub rose is often used confusingly with bush rose.
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Layer flexible stems of ramblers and shrub roses .
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Prune bush roses and any shrub roses needing attention.
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Take cuttings of this and other shrub roses in September.
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Ramblers can be grown as ground cover, weeping standards or decorative espaliers. Shrub roses .
window
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Above: Chartres Cathedral: north rose window and west rose window.
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At the top a small rose window afforded some light.
■ VERB
grow
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He grows roses and part of the grounds consists of a copse of mature trees.
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Cabs carrying Sherlock Holmes did better than that, and you couldn't grow roses using Armstrong's exhaust.
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He spends a hell of a lot of money irrigating so he can grow roses .
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His guidance on mixed planting should appeal to those who prefer to grow their roses informally today.
plant
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The graves were planted with a few late roses , the fresh earth like a scar on the land.
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But can you actually plant roses in June?
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If you like roses , you could consider planting a specialised rose garden.
send
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He sent me a rose once.
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He does not display testaments to how thoughtful he is but sends her roses on her birthday.
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She had understood his reluctance to send roses to the women in his life, but Luke had gone further than that.
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And I send her a red rose with the same message.
smell
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No time to stop and smell the roses ?
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Toni smelled her perfume like roses on a fresh morning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not a bed of roses
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And thank you for the roses.
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Another very successful collection of my pictures has been made by a lady who is very keen on yellow roses.
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She could see Alison's roses and felt them to be a rebuke.
II.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the height of the storm it rose about 3m, tearing the vegetation from islands, hurtling through trees.
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Before him, right there, rose the great bowl of Yankee Stadium.
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Somehow she rose over her excitement, though, and concentrated all she could on the task at hand.
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The scrim rose and the boy relived his life with them.
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They rose sharply, for example, during the eruption of Monte Nuevo in 1538.
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fortunately rose rust doesn't occur very often, but when it does it can be a killer.
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Jezrael could still see the lights of sunflowers strung out like mercury on rose satin.
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The western porch below, surmounted by its rose window, is sculptured.