VASE


Meaning of VASE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a glass bottle/bowl/vase etc

Glass bottles can be recycled very easily.

a vase of flowers

On the table was a vase of flowers.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

glass

Charleston photo album; notebook; yellow glass vase .

Flowers in water, in a glass vase on top of that, would make money hard to get to.

Browning went into the garden and picked a rose and put it in a little glass vase .

I bought a round, heavy-rimmed clear glass vase , which looked good on the heavy round glass.

Then she produced a large green glass vase , which she attached to the closed orifice of the net.

Both pictures depict a glass vase set on a stone plinth with variegated tulips, daffodils, irises and other flowers.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

From about the time of the invention of red-figure some black-figure vases are given a white slip covering the orange clay.

I lifted the vase between my thumb and forefinger.

It has a smell to it, that word -- musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase .

It is usually used in conjunction with a garden, vase or prayer-rug design.

On the table in front of the sofa was a vase holding four pink roses, the blooms in various stages of uncurled perfection.

The same sum secured a 15-inch De Morgan Persian-style vase in the recent sale.

Tornadoes that spun across the blue sky like vases thrown on some mad potter's wheel.

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