collocate
Habitual word companion
Collocate means to place together or side by side.
In linguistics, words that collocate are those that habitually appear together: "strong" collocates with "tea" in British English, while Americans prefer "powerful" with "engine" but not with "tea." As a noun, a collocate is a word that frequently accompanies another: What are the common collocates of "make" versus "do"?
Joint presence in context
- adjacencyState of being beside
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
- proximityNearness in space
- contextCircumstances shaping meaning
corpus · concordance · frequency · distribution · bigram · trigram · lexeme · lemma
Position or location
- arrangePlace methodically
- situatePlace in position
- positionLocation or stance
- juxtaposePlace together for contrast
align · order · coordinate · group · cluster · neighbor · adjoin · abut
One who keeps company
- partnerOne who shares activity
- counterpartCorresponding person or thing
- affiliateConnected member organization
- colleagueProfessional associate
collaborator · peer · fellow · cohort · complement · correlate · correspondent · match
co-occurrence
Joint presence in context
- adjacencyState of being beside
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
- proximityNearness in space
context · corpus · concordance · frequency · distribution · bigram · trigram · lexeme · lemma · token
place
Position or location
juxtapose · align · order · coordinate · group · cluster · neighbor · adjoin · abut · flank
companion
One who keeps company
- partnerOne who shares activity
- counterpartCorresponding person or thing
- affiliateConnected member organization
colleague · collaborator · peer · fellow · cohort · complement · correlate · correspondent · match · parallel
combine
Merge, or harvesting machine
link · connect · fuse · merge · integrate · synthesize · converge · associate · correlate · correspond