I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brown/white etc envelope
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There was a large brown envelope on his desk.
a red/white scar
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She still had the faint white scar on her ankle.
a white cell (= a type of blood cell that defends your body against disease )
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In leukaemia there is an abnormal and excessive formation of white cells.
a white Christmas (= with snow on the ground )
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We haven't had a white Christmas in England for years.
a white cloud
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There was a bright blue sky with a few white clouds.
a white lie (= a small lie that you tell someone for good reasons, for example to avoid hurting their feelings )
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We all have to tell white lies sometimes.
a white wedding (= a traditional wedding where the bride wears a white dress )
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She had always wanted a white wedding.
a white/black/red etc patch
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The bird has a large black patch on each side of its neck.
a white/golden beach
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The house was beside a dazzling white beach.
be white with rage
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I could see she was white with rage.
black and white
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black and white photos
black/blue/white/grey smoke
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Black smoke poured out of the engine.
bleed sb dry/white (= take all their money, possessions etc )
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The ten-year war has bled the country dry.
deathly cold/white/pale
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She was deathly pale, and looked as if she might faint.
egg white (= the white part )
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Whisk the egg white until stiff.
fair/pale/white
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I have fair skin that burns very easily.
go grey/white etc
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Her hair is starting to go grey.
go wild/mad/white etc with sth
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The crowd was going wild with excitement.
red/white/rosé wine
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The waiter brought some red wine.
the black/white population (= black or white people who live in a place )
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Unemployment is greater among the black population.
the black/white/Asian etc community
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The city has a large Asian community.
the White House
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claims that the White House had received warnings of a possible terrorist attack before September 11th
turn (sth) red/blue/white etc
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Rose’s hair was already turning grey.
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In October the leaves turn orange and yellow.
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The sun had turned the sky a glowing pink.
wave/raise/show etc the white flag
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Despite the loss, the team refuses to wave the white flag and give up on the season.
wear black/white/red etc
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Usually I wear black, grey, or brown.
white blood cell
white chocolate (= white in colour, with a sweet milky taste )
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Serve the cake with a white chocolate sauce.
white corpuscle
white dwarf
white elephant
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When the theatre first opened it was widely regarded as a white elephant.
white fish (= whose meat is white when cooked )
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grilled white fish
white flag
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Despite the loss, the team refuses to wave the white flag and give up on the season.
white flour
white goods British English (= equipment used in the home such as washing machines and refrigerators )
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The house is unfurnished, except for white goods.
white goods
white heat
white horses
white hot (= used to describe metal that is extremely hot )
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He held the metal in the flame until it became white hot.
White House
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claims that the White House had received warnings of a possible terrorist attack before September 11th
white knight
white lie
white lightning
white magic
white meat (= a light-coloured meat such as chicken )
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White meat is supposed to be healthier.
white meat
white noise
White Pages
White Paper
white pepper
white sauce
white spirit
white supremacist
white trash
white van man
white wedding
white
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an old man with white hair
white (= with milk )
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Two white teas and a coffee, please.
white (= with milk )
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I’d like a white coffee, please.
white/brown bread
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Would you like white bread or brown bread?
white/red/blue etc
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I decided to use white paint throughout the house.
white/wholemeal/granary etc loaf British English
white/wholemeal/rice/wheat etc flour
white/yellow
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His teeth were white and even.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
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Since 1998, white blood cells have been removed from donated blood.
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His white blood count dropped after the treatment, as expected, but is now back up to pre-transplant levels.
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This left him defenceless against the foreign white blood cells in the transfused blood.
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His body was erroneously producing a flood of white blood cells in a frantic search for a disease that did not exist.
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Lymphocyte: a variety of white blood cell.
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Glover saw his face, dense as coal, no white blood , none of the high tones of the day.
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In two-thirds of such patients, white blood cells known as T-Lymphocytes that are produced by the marrow attack their fresh surroundings.
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Plasma is the protein-rich water that remains when red and white blood cells are removed from blood.
bread
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The kitchen bread-bin yielded three loaves of wrapped sliced white bread , and a single granary loaf.
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Unless you desire the whitest possible loaf, unbleached flour is processed less and certainly white enough for white bread .
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Use pre-sliced white bread and remove the crusts.
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As an alternative, I am proposing a slow, firm loaf that will change your view of white bread for ever.
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So I have saved my white bread until last; there is some left for my old age.
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I repeat: There are times when only white bread will do.
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At one time in history white bread was too expensive for all but the very rich.
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Either way this is a great bread combining both the enjoyment of light white bread with the nutritional benefits of fiber.
cell
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There was strongly positive uptake by the entire graft on a labelled white cell scan.
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So it keeps only a few copies of each white cell .
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Apart from a moderate increase in the white cell count in both patients, the results of routine investigations were normal.
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As soon as one type of white cell meets the antigen that fits its locks, it begins multiplying.
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It's the white cells in tissue-typing.
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His urine contains numerous white cells and bacteria.
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I thought hard about my actual immune system and the white cells of which it is largely composed.
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Occasionally, a substantially increased platelet or white cell count may lead to apparent increases in plasma potassium concentration.
coat
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Suddenly like Matisse in a three-piece suit and consultant's white coat , I take infinite pains to keep this model alive.
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Like any movie scientist worthy of his white coat , Bridges goes slowly mad.
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A man in a long white coat came scurrying out and opened the back of the ambulance.
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The white coat , cut from an old handkerchief, was particularly successful, she thought.
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As a result, a shortage of melanin gives a cat a white coat and blue eyes-and destroys its hearing.
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There's this bloke with a white coat on and this bag of bread, feeding the birds.
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A male nurse in a white coat came out, and Jean sent him back for a wheelchair.
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The white coat was worn with white trousers, without additional white stripes.
collar
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But for the sheer number of performances, there has been nothing to compare with the serial trials of white collar criminals.
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One recent study concluded: These days, some truckers are more inclined to sport white collars than tank tops.
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Workers, both blue and white collar , have had it tough throughout the 1990s.
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Bosses at Ford also announced 1,180 job losses on top of an expected 2,000 white collar redundancies.
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Made by John Smedley in luxurious sea-island cotton, it sports posh white collar and cuff.
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And talking of white collars ... all accountants in Hong Kong are already taking a position on 1997.
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Father O'Harte, easing his little white collar , for it was a hot day, sighed deeply.
elephant
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Saracen ambassadors bring Charlemagne a white elephant complete with exotic trappings.
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What do you do with a huge white elephant like that?
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More spaces are needed at less cost not another white elephant office block.
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In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants .
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Its victims are usually poor folk made poorer by the white elephants their leaders have inflicted on them.
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Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.
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There's this picturesque white elephant development on the Costa del Sol, apparently going for a song.
face
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For poor blacks, without money to move, living in an inner-city ghetto can mean days without seeing a white face .
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It was indeed an adult version of the sickly white faces of the boys in the playground.
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He looked at her white face and the dark fear in her eyes and felt a brute.
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His white face was spiteful, threatening and suggestive.
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There was terror in her white face as she saw this.
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The white faces of saints had grown insane and bloated, their purity profaned.
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He's got long fair hair and a little white face too.
flag
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They made a white flag and left by car.
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A white flag would mean the baby was a boy, and it was safe to return.
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Eventually Watney's waved the white flag , and Maxwell Joseph had acquired the brewery he wanted.
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There are no white flags flying outside the former Santa Rosa.
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But the men pulled a white flag and later surrendered in the presence of a priest.
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The living come, murmuring with fresh flowers, their maps fluttering like white flags in the slight breeze.
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All John Smith had done was put up the white flag .
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In mid-afternoon, Salisbury was back under his white flag .
hair
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A blue line had been daubed across his forehead and round his short white hair .
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The summer light through the window frames Bill's white hair .
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He is 61, with white hair and a droopy mustache.
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His thick white hair was cut short and unevenly, so that in parts it stood up in clumps.
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He has white hair , and he is clean-shaven.
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Now, any kitten with tufts or streaks of white hair on an otherwise jet black coat will be ignored.
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I wash your intimate places, pull your white hairs , and cut your nails.
horse
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From 1874 upon the sail was emblazoned the rampant white horse of Kent.
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The notion of some man on a white horse saving the party with a late candidacy is fanciful.
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Mr Bean's mate was bringing out an extraordinary white horse covered in black spots.
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A: A white horse swimming in Jell-O.
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The white horse of heroin galloped to my side.
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He was on a white horse but even she could see that it was not Ana's horse.
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Here's the chap on the white horse again, he never loses his feathers.
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The mist behind him formed a shape on a white horse .
house
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See the magnificent church of St. Mary, surrounded by small white houses set amongst palm trees and stunted eucalyptus.
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While he stood in his quiet room on his quiet street, where white houses gleamed in the tropical night?
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It was a two-storey white house nestling just within the last gentle curve up to the headland.
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On Willow Drive, the big white house in the center of the circle there.
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Some weeks later, a letter arrived at the little white house on the hill.
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It was a trim white house with a ladder leaning against it.
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Sunlight glittered on the snow at the peaks and on the tiny white houses below.
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On one side was the island, low and bare: he saw a small white house and a few sheep.
man
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In the islands almost all white men were part of a rigid structure that turned them into guards and gaolers.
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Likewise, their black servant is played by a white man .
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They all represent the obsessional, neurotic and fetishistic sexuality of a gay scene, created by and for white men .
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But it found white women equally favored Clinton and Dole, while white men overwhelmingly favored Dole.
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That was at the very apogee of the age of imperialism, when white men carved up the black continent between them.
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I had never, ever, ever seen a black man kill a white man.
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When you go into council with the white man , always remember your country.
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The white man was picking up and dropping little cans on one of the shelves.
paper
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Some measures may be in train before the white paper is published.
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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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As he left, the image of scarlet, oval glove-prints on white paper went with him.
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I did comb out a single dead louse, and we inspected it on a sheet of white paper .
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Magilla was given a large sheet of plain white paper and a felt-tip pen and proceeded to write down all our thoughts.
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This twenty-page white paper went directly to John Sculley.
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It is always a relief to cover the white paper !
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I went into a tea shop and ordered a pot of tea and a little cake in fluted white paper .
people
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They would never have dreamed of telling me to take a certain attitude towards white people .
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Pupo sits among these Strange white people , ashamed and cornered.
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There is no recognition that we, the white people , are wrong.
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I want my good friends to tell the good white people what they did to us here at Wounded Knee.
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It's like white people make these generalisations about our culture, without really understanding it.
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We got too many white people , we need more red ones!
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The white people have too many chiefs.
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Hundreds of white tables with white chairs are mostly filled with suntanned white people dressed colorfully.
pepper
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Combine the gravadlax, cucumber and yogurt in a bowl, add salt and white pepper to taste.
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Season with sea salt and white pepper .
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Add white pepper and paprika, Corn Flakes or bread crumbs, parsley and whole egg and egg whites.
population
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It was clear that the white population would accept an agreement with alacrity.
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The white population around the borders of the reservation was growing and expanding.
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The conference is seen by some as part of a continuing campaign of racial denigration against the country's white population .
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Numerous programs for increasing the white population were debated in the colonial assembly, but no resolution was adopted.
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Only in the homogeneous white population of the United Provinces of the River Plate did independence seem secure.
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As their baseline constituents, the blue-collar and middle-class white populations , migrated to the suburbs, long-standing political alignments dissolved.
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As with other areas, global comparisons between black and white populations hide differences within the black population.
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Monroe was an irreconcilable opponent of national policy and a recognized leader of the rebel portion of the white population .
sheet
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There was the big brass bed with its snowy white sheets , its marshmallow pillows and top-cover of fringed ivory lace.
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Dot was in a wide high bed with white sheets , two pillows, two blankets and an eiderdown.
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A double bed with starched white sheets covering a too-soft mattress fills most of the space.
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He was asleep, his frail hands folded on the white sheet .
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She saw seven place settings and seven beds with white sheets .
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She held the bundle up and finished unwrapping it from its white sheet .
shirt
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He goes into the bedroom and puts on a clean white shirt and a suit.
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Saturday night at the Shoreline Amphitheatre he was wearing a white shirt and thick framed glasses.
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He was dressed neatly enough in grey breeches, white shirt and an ill-fitting blue coat, but was barefoot.
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He is dressed all in black, except for a white shirt .
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He was wearing white flannel trousers and a white shirt with a cravat at his neck.
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They were dignified men with stiff white shirts and shoes as shiny as black marble.
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He still wore the grey flannel trousers, white shirt and maroon pullover of his school, but his feet were bare.
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He was short, in his fifties, wearing a white shirt with a brown paisley pattern.
supremacist
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There is growing evidence that white supremacist groups are renewing hate campaigns against Aborigines in some provincial towns.
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It is why movements like the religious right or white supremacists have not gained good purchase here.
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I consider this to be a racist response to help a group of people who are-predominantly-racist white supremacists .
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They changed the subject by noting their prosecution of some highly publicized cases against the Klan and other white supremacist organizations.
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The killer: a white supremacist named Robert Chambliss.
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Another element is the continuing presence of organized white supremacists in our society and the violence they perpetrate.
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Toole says all the Montana groups have white supremacist links.
wine
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Tie-breaker Describe in no more than 100 words how the production of sweet white wines varies from that of dry white wines.
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The 1995 Domaine de la RomaneeConti Montrachet is just as fabulous and expensive a white wine .
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Leaving white wines unfiltered is certainly far more revolutionary than a bit of oak.
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Red wine , for instance, has more congeners than white wine.
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Salmon Parisienne with a delicious white wine sauce.
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John sips a glass of white wine methodically.
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Add white wine , red wine vinegar, tomato purée and mustard to the pan with the garlic.
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Then they disseminated research pointing to both red and white wine .
woman
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Well, not just me: he loves all white women .
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One white woman nearby caught her attention.
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The white woman picked a branch of magenta bougainvillea flowers and put them in a glass on the table.
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The naked white woman on the bed seemed like any odalisque, Venus, or Danaeidealized flesh made into art.
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The emerging feminist perspectives on poverty, too, have been resourced primarily by the accounts provided by white women .
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But it found white women equally favored Clinton and Dole, while white men overwhelmingly favored Dole.
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The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder.
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Through their eyes, a white woman traveling in a car filled with black folks looked like a hostage.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
great white chief
snow-capped, white-capped etc
the White House
the White Pages
white-coated/fur-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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white daisies
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A derivation of White Sunday, it refers to the white garments worn by the recently baptised Christians of the early Church.
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For years, the female tilt toward the Democrats was balanced by disproportionate white male support for Republicans.
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He and a white friend, William Grady, had been chased into the station by white youths throwing bottles and stones.
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His thick white hair was cut short and unevenly, so that in parts it stood up in clumps.
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Hundreds of white tables with white chairs are mostly filled with suntanned white people dressed colorfully.
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Nice white socks and a proper little coat.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
poor
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He points out that poor and middle-class whites will suffer, not the rich.
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The poor whites , and poor blacks.
■ NOUN
egg
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Whisk 2 egg whites until firm and fold into the mixture.
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Add white pepper and paprika, Corn Flakes or bread crumbs, parsley and whole egg and egg whites.
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Whisk the egg whites until stiff, then add to the cream.
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Brush lightly with beaten egg white and sprinkle with sugar, if desired.
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In a separate mixing bowl, whip egg whites until firm but not dry.
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Add the egg whites and one tablespoon of cold water and mix thoroughly. 3.
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The cake with four egg whites was dry, dry, dry.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
black and white
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"Is the film 'Casablanca' in colour?'' "No, it's in black and white.''
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Black and white TV sets are now very cheap to buy.
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an exhibition of black and white photos
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A small black and white quarter horse was nibbling grass among the trees.
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Co. are responding in stark black and white.
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More than 350 colour and black and white photos, and illustrations.
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Razor bills are black and white with deep, square bills.
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That perception of inferiority in turn means that some sort of caste barrier is erected between black and white.
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The black and white feeds in a narrow range of tree species and when none is fruiting it eats leaves.
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There are now genuine friendships among black and white leaders and there has been progress.
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This allows real-life 3-D objects to be digitised in both black and white and colour.
great white chief
in black and white
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The rules are there in black and white for everyone to see.
snow-capped, white-capped etc
the White House
the White Pages
white-coated/fur-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Whites make up 60% of the student population.
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Californian whites are selling well.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both had been told from childhood that black men and women could never reach the heights that whites attain.
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He points out that poor and middle-class whites will suffer, not the rich.
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Prominent strips of inlay were left unfinished; awkward patches of pink sandstone intrude into the glistening white of the dome.
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Then came sugar, and by the late 1700s there were 10, 000 blacks, outnumbering whites by 10 to one.
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This is especially true in California, where non-Hispanic whites now make up only 55 percent of the population.
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Using a spatula, fold in the remaining whites.
III. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
black and white
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"Is the film 'Casablanca' in colour?'' "No, it's in black and white.''
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Black and white TV sets are now very cheap to buy.
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an exhibition of black and white photos
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A small black and white quarter horse was nibbling grass among the trees.
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Co. are responding in stark black and white.
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More than 350 colour and black and white photos, and illustrations.
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Razor bills are black and white with deep, square bills.
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That perception of inferiority in turn means that some sort of caste barrier is erected between black and white.
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The black and white feeds in a narrow range of tree species and when none is fruiting it eats leaves.
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There are now genuine friendships among black and white leaders and there has been progress.
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This allows real-life 3-D objects to be digitised in both black and white and colour.
great white chief
in black and white
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The rules are there in black and white for everyone to see.
the White House
the White Pages
white-coated/fur-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I bathe and dress, and paste my face in gauzy liquid, whiting out the spots and the sweat.