noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an item of vocabulary/a vocabulary item (= a word or expression )
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Students are encouraged to write down useful vocabulary items in their notebooks.
an item of vocabulary/a vocabulary item (= a word or expression )
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Students are encouraged to write down useful vocabulary items in their notebooks.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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Concepts in Use Basic vocabulary , basic structures, short passages, and straight forward messages.
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A simple 10-word list of fairly basic vocabulary should suffice.
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Intended to develop recognition and efficient production of key functional phrases, improve listening ability, and expand basic business vocabulary .
large
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All have large vocabularies and sets of rules for putting words together in sentences.
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From here on in, says Lawrence, increased performance and memory will simply lead to larger vocabularies .
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Such an improvement should permit recognition systems with larger vocabularies and generally weaker top-down constraints.
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The hand-crafting of semantic information for a large vocabulary would be a complex and time-consuming job.
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If choreographers have had training in classical dance, they already have a large vocabulary of movement on which to call.
limited
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A limited vocabulary of immediately useful terms should be used in all drills and conversations.
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And the situation is complicated by the embarrassment that Hindi is relatively under-developed, with a limited vocabulary and a crude grammar.
new
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On the other hand, modern science was used to list a new vocabulary of transgression.
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Such dramatic growth has given rise to a whole new vocabulary .
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The picture can then be used to introduce new vocabulary .
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It seems that a new vocabulary was emerging for describing the physical events of women's lives.
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I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter.
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You may also get some new vocabulary . prepare conversation before you go.
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A new vocabulary of abortion has arisen.
wide
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Ogwen apprenticeships had their uses, and maybe one of them was to bestow a wider vocabulary .
■ NOUN
core
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This may be based on the core vocabulary , or a subset thereof.
word
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What are some significant differences in pronunciation, vocabulary words , and syntax? 2.
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Some typical vocabulary words of this creole are listed in table 7. 2.
■ VERB
enter
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Fragmentation and alienation quickly entered the visual vocabulary of artists associated with early modernism.
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Uranium and thorium entered lay vocabularies even as world markets for them were spawned.
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New words entered their vocabulary: forgiveness, conflict resolution, national reconciliation, equity, self-empowerment.
learn
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Horses can learn some of the vocabulary of others.
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Children learn vocabulary from talking, reading, writing, and from playing with words.
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Could we move to the new music or learn a fresh vocabulary ?
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I had to learn a new vocabulary and come to terms with words like Advent, Atonement, Assumption,.
limit
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For Dexter it was college degrees, limited vocabulary , and growing up on the wrong side of the street.
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That breath and her limited vocabulary were snapping me out of grinning aw-shucks-ness.
use
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Datasets are exhaustively indexed by subject, using a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus.
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Instead, he creates credible new tunes using the vocabulary of the Beatles to create a bizarre version of the band.
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Hence the definitions aim to be very clear and precise, perhaps produced using a restricted defining vocabulary .
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The picture can then be used to introduce new vocabulary .
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Most tourist snapshots also use a vocabulary of photographic practice which is embedded in power relations.
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When speakers of one language borrow words from another language, the foreign words come to be used as regular vocabulary items.
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By a long process the child gradually learns and uses an increasing vocabulary .
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The explanation is that the domestic cat uses two vocabularies at once.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a vocabulary test
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How big is the average 4-year-old's vocabulary ?
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Naomi has been using flash cards to increase her vocabulary .
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Reading is a good way to increase your vocabulary .
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These stories are written for students with a vocabulary of about 2000 words.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Just teach me vocabulary and pronunciation.
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Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning.
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The booksellers' and auctioneers' vocabulary concerning condition is a very extensive one and varies greatly from cataloguer to cataloguer.
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There is no alternative to sitting down and slogging through long lists of vocabulary .
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Words such as privilege and poverty will either change their meaning or disappear from the vocabulary .