I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cold winter
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A cold winter will increase oil consumption.
a spring/summer/autumn/winter flower
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The mountainsides were blanketed with spring flowers.
a summer/winter etc morning
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They set off on a beautiful spring morning.
a winter coat
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You’ll need a good winter coat in Canada.
a winter holiday
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Why not try a winter holiday for a change?
a winter sport (= skiing, ice skating etc )
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More and more people are taking up winter sports.
a winter/summer storm
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People fear there may be more flooding when the winter storms hit.
harsh winter/weather/climate
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the harsh Canadian winters
the spring/summer/autumn/winter sunshine
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She was sitting in the garden, enjoying the spring sunshine.
the summer/autumn/winter/spring months
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It's very cold here during the winter months.
the summer/winter sky
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Her eyes were as blue as the summer sky.
the summer/winter solstice (= the longest or shortest day of the year )
winter solstice
winter sports
winter/summer clothes
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The shops are already full of winter clothes.
winter/summer clothing
winter/summer etc wardrobe (= the clothes you have for a particular time of year )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
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These depths should also prevent the pond from freezing solid in a cold winter , which would kill any fish.
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Legend has it that a poor couple gave him shelter one cold winter night.
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Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter: one shudderingly cold day succeeded another.
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Many market analysts expect the sector to continue to climb in 1996, benefiting in part from the colder weather this winter .
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A delicate plant, the Pinot Noir is difficult to nurture through the freezing cold winters of Champagne.
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A hearty soup for a cold fall or winter supper always seems like the right ticket.
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But, I just found it too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter .
early
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True, but few produce so amazing a second flush in late autumn or early winter .
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In the early winter darkness of this January day the crowds were still there when the weather changed and turned nasty.
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They should either be grazed insitu in the autumn or early winter or, if clamped, fed before Christmas.
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Mine flowered from early winter until early spring and looked gorgeous all the time.
hard
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Woody herbs, like thyme, marjoram and winter savory stay green in all but the hardest winters and clip into tiny hedging.
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There are about six types of high-gluten flour, some made with hard spring wheat and some with hard winter wheat.
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Seb saw little of the Wychwood gipsies during the hard winter months that followed Christmas.
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After the hard winter of 1848, the family immigrated to Pittsburgh, where her sisters lived.
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It looked as though it would be a hard winter .
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But it has been an unusually hard winter season, too.
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Let the hard winter come! he thought, whistling the morning anthem.
harsh
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Some people are looking forward to less harsh winters and longer, hotter summers.
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I count the bare spots in the flower beds, where tender plants have been killed by the harsh winter .
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Your plants will need time to become really well established to give them a better chance of surviving a harsh winter .
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A harsh Manchurian winter was just beginning.
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Small mammals avoid the harshest winter conditions by living within or under the snow.
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Had they been creeping south with the harsher winters ?
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The shipment was greeted with delight by the local community where people have died of starvation during the harsh highland winter .
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With limited exceptions, shops and lodging facilities are shuttered during the harsh winters .
late
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Bench grafting Cuttings of both rootstocks and scion are taken in autumn and stored until mid or late winter .
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Major pruning is done in late winter .
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Near the coast also the sea air reduces the cold of late winter and spring.
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One day during the late winter or early spring of 1920, Margarett picked up the telephone.
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Surely it was no later than the winter of 1817?
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Irony abounds: In late winter 1992, Hillary Clinton soldiered on through public mortification toward the greater goal of the presidency.
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Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter , after a gestation period of up to 10 months.
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In late winter , Louise collapsed.
long
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Old masters to study. Long winter days with nothing else to do.
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During the long winters , the people gathered around fires in the lodges and told stories.
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A Long winter Autumn ended all too quickly.
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Conversely the long winters allowed considerable time for off-farm work, particularly in the forests.
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For many of us, these long winter nights stir up painful memories and fearful thoughts.
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The long winter evenings, I was told, were spent extracting the seed from the heads.
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The long dry hot winter , as Oliver said, was over.
mild
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None of the members has seen such mild weather in winter .
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Thus far it has been a relatively mild winter in Baltimore, which is causing the usual whining from the Snow Freaks.
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It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
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We were lucky, it was the mildest winter in years.
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It is suited to the warmer climates and milder winters .
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But I think the pentas, which will pull through a milder winter , may need to be replaced.
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It is a land of gentle summers and mild winters .
severe
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Tufted Duck are unusual on salt water, except in severe winter weather.
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The Northeastern markets, though, are more susceptible to severe winter weather.
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Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.
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The leaves are evergreen or semi-evergreen since they can be heavily defoliated in severe winters .
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Release of the report was delayed two days by a severe winter storm.
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In a severe winter , the figure can reach 80 percent.
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Federal Express cited the impact of severe winter weather on its delivery service.
warm
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It was warm in the winter with the coals making fiery caves and purple tunnels for magic stories.
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The manufacturer claims that Polarfleece is warm in winter and cool in summer.
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Does it operate efficiently and keep the house warm in winter ?
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Today is a rare warm day in winter , in the mid-fifties.
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It is air and moisture permeable, therefore cool in summer and warm in winter .
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And what if that leads into another warm winter ?
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Its dense growth provides nesting places for a range of bird life as well as warm cover in winter or roosting small birds.
■ NOUN
coat
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He's got his big winter coat on with silver buttons and his tall hat.
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When I married Martin, he paid off all my debts, poor dear, and bought me a new winter coat .
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The humans had grown their winter coats , and the high buildings trembled in the tight grip of their stress equations.
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She could fill the second suitcase with her winter coat .
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In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders.
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Their hair was in raggedy patches, for they were molting their thick winter coats .
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In addition, a wintry spell before the Cesarewitch was prompting our runners to start donning their winter coats before they set off.
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Amy needs shoes, boots, a winter coat .
evening
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Just think of those winter evenings when you came home with feet like blocks of ice.
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It was a cozy winter evening , just a group of quilters sitting around discussing ice damming.
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We also make use of the photo-copying facilities and use their premises for our winter evening meetings.
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There was so little daylight it felt like a late winter evening .
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Long winter evenings by the fire With Proust and cream of carrot soup.
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While away those dark winter evenings and exercise the grey matter at the same time!
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But one winter evening , Charles Henstock paid a call upon his friend Harold Shoosmith.
month
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As the coal went down over the winter months , these boards would be taken away to lower the height.
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During the winter months , an above-ground replica of an underground Royal Observer Corps bunker will be erected in the display hangar.
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Collect and dry your own herbs in summer for use during the winter months .
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JULIE-ANN, 18, needs some one to keep her sane during the long winter months . 18+ males preferred.
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This is when the pilots who have been hibernating during the winter months get their gliders out and start flying again.
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During the winter months , those trying to sell convertibles have little in their favour.
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They are often sold in the winter months from small casks kept on bar counters.
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A thermal blanket of warm air protects the vines in the winter months and hastens maturity through the summer.
night
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On winter night shifts it was at its worst.
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Late that winter night his struggle ended.
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The darkness of the long winter night had settled when the train came to an untidy halt at Pot'ma station.
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Each day seems as long as a year and the winter nights drag on like an exile.
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Boas normally mate during the winter nights .
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For many of us, these long winter nights stir up painful memories and fearful thoughts.
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There is no heat on sub-freezing winter nights except from whatever brush can be built into fire.
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Legend has it that a poor couple gave him shelter one cold winter night .
solstice
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A mild example of this from antiquity was the Roman Saturnalia at the time of the winter solstice .
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Since both CHANike and Christmas were originally winter solstice celebrations, they often coincide and compete.
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At the winter solstice two daggers touch the outsides of the spiral.
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The winter solstice was only three days away, and the urge to have a raucous good time among friends took hold.
storm
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Our only hope is a good old winter storm over the Christmas holiday.
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A winter storm watch was posted for the Lake Tahoe area and northward above the 8, 000-foot level Wednesday.
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Fertility is not restored until the winter storms stir the waters again.
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Fortunately, the house is strongly built, and is not damaged even by the worst winter storms .
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The wind and surf were to ease somewhat Tuesday but the National Weather Service warned of winter storm conditions in the mountains.
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Fenced lands tended to be unevenly grazed, and fences were obvious hazards to cattle in winter storms .
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Release of the report was delayed two days by a severe winter storm .
visitor
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The turnstones are winter visitors to Britain.
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The three native species are all winter visitors in the central and southern parts of the region.
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The arrival and departure of winter visitors overlaps passage, but peak winter counts are usually made in December or January.
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Passage movements and the arrival and departure of winter visitors are difficult to separate.
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The local breeding stock appears to disperse in July and August and winter visitors may start to arrive in September.
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Peak numbers occur between December and February, and most winter visitors have departed by late March.
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By the end of March the bulk of our winter visitors have departed.
weather
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Oxfam say woman and children are particularly at risk from the bitter winter weather .
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Application First ask the students to share their experiences with winter weather , ice, and snow.
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Tufted Duck are unusual on salt water, except in severe winter weather .
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Federal Express cited the impact of severe winter weather on its delivery service.
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The bad winter weather with no guaranteed snow cover could prove to be this expansion's downfall.
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It will lack both the severe winter weather and the potential for combat of the Balkans.
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Aapri's new Facial Wash Gel can help you to help your skin combat the winter weather .
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There is just time to apply a coat before the winter weather really sets in.
wheat
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The fields he could see from the window of Kirsham primary school rustled with winter wheat .
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There are about six types of high-gluten flour, some made with hard spring wheat and some with hard winter wheat.
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But, under winter wheat , the income would be £9600.
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In addition, a 7 percent increase in the winter wheat crop acres raised hope stockpiles would rise later this year.
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Another herbicide, Isoproturon, is in much wider use as a means of controlling the blackgrass weed which affects winter wheat .
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Already the young farmer has lost more than half his winter wheat crop to a crippling drought.
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The ground used was where herbicide in the previous winter wheat had failed to provide any real control of blackgrass.
■ VERB
spend
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They spent their long winters under a deep blanket of snow, singing and creating ghost stories.
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He decided to spend the winter in Rome.
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A tubercular kidney was diagnosed and Laidler was advised to give up office work and to spend his winters abroad.
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Miss Buechler is talking about the pilgrims coming to a rocky shore to spend a winter of hardship in the new land.
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Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid.
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I spent the winter mostly shivering.
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As many as 80,000 knot spend their winters here - that's around a quarter of the total population wintering in Britain.
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I spent most of the winter working alone in the barn.
survive
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An established hebe may survive all but the worst winters , but a young plant may succumb to moderately severe weather.
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First there are infective larvae which developed during the previous grazing season and have survived on pasture over winter .
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How do aquatic animals survive the winter in relation to ice? 8.
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Tatty and faded now, it had survived hibernation through the winter .
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Families survive winter with a freezer full of elk steaks and deer salami.
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Some groups may survive the winter , once the old people have died off.
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It will stay there now until next May, surviving the deep winter cold in an antifreeze solution of sweet glycerol.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hard winter/frost
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After a hard frost the passage walls sweated and water trickled down the corridors.
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All in all, the young have the odds stacked against them, especially in a hard winter.
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It looked as though it would be a hard winter.
the dead of night/winter
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Even in the dead of night this was Frankie's house.
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I felt as if I had been violated in the dead of night.
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My house feels solid and safe and orderly; hyacinths and narcissus bloom indoors here even in the dead of winter.
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People moving about in the dead of night, poisons being administered in a locked room.
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Purple coneflower, a favored plant of summer, finds a second season in the dead of winter.
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She imagined Anastasia, Peace and Calm meeting in the dead of night to plan just this scene between them.
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The brave soldier was alone but stood his ground after confronting the men in the dead of night.
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The gangs carry out their raids in the dead of night, kitted out with night-sights and camouflage gear.
the depths of winter
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All the windows were shuttered as if we were in the depths of winter.
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Always try to see a prospective home in the depths of winter.
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Besides I don't think the gondoliers work in the depths of winter.
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Even in the depths of winter the sea ice is never a complete cover.
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Sexy underwear's got nothing on thermal britches and vests when it comes to keeping you cosy in the depths of winter.
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This lightning campaign undertaken in the depths of winter while most people were still celebrating Christmas had the desired effect.
the winter solstice
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the hard winter of 1848, the family immigrated to Pittsburgh, where her sisters lived.
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Both in summer and winter thousands came to the mountains, returning home with yoghurt, cheese and other products.
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In winter the frozen river is the only route into Zanskar.
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In winter , rice fields were bare and brown, but there was the anticipation of spring planting just around the corner.
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In the winter , it had taken several days at room temperature before they showed any signs of life.
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In the summer, open windows and in the winter , turn on the heating so it is warm and welcoming.
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It was winter at last and a cool breeze blew at night.
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The compartments have little curtains in the windows; the lamps are lit; it's eleven a.m. but still winter .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 100 are now found wintering fairly regularly in Bosham Creek.
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As many as 80,000 knot spend their winters here - that's around a quarter of the total population wintering in Britain.
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Except in very cold weather, however, the numbers wintering in Sussex are never very large.
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Maynard Bolster, wintering from Kalispell, Mont., is in his customary seat, dutifully keeping score.