noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a symbol/beacon of hope (= something that makes people have hope )
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Mandela was a symbol of hope for his whole country.
potent symbol
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a potent symbol of oppression
sex symbol
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Hollywood’s newest sex symbol
status symbol
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A Rolls Royce is seen as a status symbol.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Counting attaches a different verbal number symbol to a set of units as one unit is added.
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The same data are plotted in b but the species are categorised into three different life styles denoted by different symbols .
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The second reiterates this in a slightly different language using symbols instead of words.
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The key factor, phrase or words bold Use a different colour or symbol to identify each part of your question.
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To mark this stressed syllable in the low head we will use a different symbol , as in low.
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Amid the dust and noise of hard-hatted workmen, a very different symbol is arising on Pennsylvania Avenue.
national
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The issue became a national symbol of the struggle between development and environment.
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The depictions on paper money and coins reinforce national icons and symbols .
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Wouldn't losing the pound mean losing an important national symbol ?
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More than the economic backwardness and resentment at being made into the national symbol of anti-communist resistance is a sense of loss.
potent
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This is one reason why the crackling sound of the geiger counter has become such a potent symbol of the dangers.
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The jumbo jet is after all one of the most potent symbols of this century.
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And surfing is the most potent symbol - even stimulus - of that shift.
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For in the Soviet Union nuclear energy is a potent symbol of high technology and modernity.
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For the individual, employment may represent the most potent symbol of adult status and integration into the community.
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The crucial point is that the very potent symbol of Einstein was not a representation of the theory of relativity.
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The spider and its web were potent symbols of Necromundan life.
powerful
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But I did support Mrs Robinson because although she is only a symbol she is a powerful symbol.
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Horses and birds are powerful symbols in our vision of freedom.
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The moon was a powerful symbol for him.
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Thank you, young man, for reminding me how powerful a symbol those open expanses of tile can be.
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Citrine was a powerful symbol of the elevation of workers to a new role in the industry.
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A woman priest presiding at the Eucharist is a powerful symbol of this good news.
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In the Bible, the heart is a powerful symbol for our inner selves.
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But why is law such an apparently powerful symbol for the peace movement?
religious
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Shields and helmets, depicted in certain contexts, were also religious symbols .
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In Michigan, as in New York, all religious symbols were removed from the classrooms used for such remedial instruction.
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Perhaps the religious symbol most strongly associated with the Minoan culture is the double-axe.
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And no one is allowed to wear anything that might be interpreted as a religious or political symbol .
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Yet little systematic work has been done on such alternative formats, nor on the religious symbols employed by them.
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This is the way certain entities come to have meaning as religious symbols .
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They often showed scenes from Minoan mythology or religious symbols , which gave the sealing the extra dimension of defence by superstition.
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Hanging over her were stars and crosses and circles and more complex designs she recognized as religious symbols .
■ NOUN
status
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They are the status symbol of the decade.
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Milky white skin was an upper-class status symbol .
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A sheepskin coat was the skinhead status symbol .
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This is the big mama of grass revenge, a power cutter and a status symbol .
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A child's birthday seems to have lost its magic and has just become another consumer oriented status symbol .
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New technologies can turn from status symbol to ball and chain overnight.
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The cell phone has turned into more than a modern day convenience, it is a status symbol .
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The precise choice of material was important, a status symbol almost.
■ VERB
become
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This is one reason why the crackling sound of the geiger counter has become such a potent symbol of the dangers.
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The zoot suit became his primary symbol .
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Cars, provided by the company, have become the physical symbols of the employees' progress through it.
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Projects have become symbols of the ghetto, isolated from society and jobs, overrun by gangs and drugs.
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Individual scores became a status symbol .
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Christmas 1994 became a symbol for the tensions.
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Charles Keating, once a successful Phoenix property developer, has become the bankrupt symbol of the multi-billion dollar savings-and-loan debacle.
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Stones become important symbols for Karlin at key points throughout the book.
remain
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Patricia Schroeder of Colorado remains a cautionary symbol of the unfair double standard in the let-your-emotions-all-hang-out department.
represent
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For the individual, employment may represent the most potent symbol of adult status and integration into the community.
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For the Sabaeans these temples represented symbols and mysteries that they never divulged.
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A switch turned on could represent the symbol 1; 0 would be a switch that was turned off.
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Here a series of characters represented by letters or symbols are presented for comparison, usually arranged in tabular form.
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Extrinsic signals representing the inner symbols are what make it possible for groups of humans to share a meaningful world.
use
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For brevity it is worth using these little symbols which are easy to learn.
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Possessed himself by a heroic passion, he uses matter as symbols of it.
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Terms are constants or are constructed using function symbols .
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Pleck notes that socialization through language requires a biological pre-adaptedness for using symbol systems.
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The second reiterates this in a slightly different language using symbols instead of words.
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But Dalton wrote no chemical equations, though he did use symbols to indicate composition and perhaps even structure.
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The fire is used as a symbol of the country's political turmoil.
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The required discipline is provided by the attempt to complete a chart such as a flow process chart using the A.S.M.E. symbols .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"H" is the scientific symbol for hydrogen.
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For several years Prince used a symbol instead of his name.
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Rollins has emerged as a symbol of modern jazz at its finest.
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The ancient Egyptians had no symbol for "zero."
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The cross is the most important symbol in Christianity.
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The dove is a symbol of peace.
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The walls were covered with magical symbols.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Back at field headquarters, Hartzog said, field commanders will view symbols that identify different forces on computer screens.
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But none could deny that a fine house was a symbol of status and wealth.
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Cathy Freeman is the symbol for the millennium Games.
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He must start with the explanations and commentaries which his informants themselves offer about their symbols.
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Miss Piggy, Kermit and the rest now come across as symbols of a bygone era.
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The left half of the symbol identifies the manufacturer; the right half identifies the product.
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The trouble was that the old meeting-house had become a symbol of religious and cultural isolation.